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    Based off of the article “National Statistics on Child Abuse”, in 2014 there were 116,940 children, ages zero to six, who were sexually molested. In the fall of 2014, a person very close to me contributed to that statistic. He is my cousin and was my best friend; we told each other everything. My 16 year old cousin sexually molested a four and five year old boy and girl, respectively and my seven year old cousin. The acts he performed are so horrifying and disgusting that I can’t write what he did

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    Child Abuse Interviews

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    What is Child Abuse? Child Abuse according to the Children, Young Persons, and their Families Act as “the arming whether physically, passionately, or sexually, mistreatment, abuse, neglect, or denial of any child or young person”. Interviews must be conducted in order to get information or assist in investigating a child abuse case. Such interviews must be done in a sensitive and considerate manner. In interview a child who have being abused in any formed the interviewer must first cover the

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    Child Abuse Statistics

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    Words kill How many children have suffered psychological abuse caused by the way their parents and/or other people speak to them? This is a form of child abuse, but when we hear that a child is being abused we automatically think of a child being sexually assaulted, mistreated, neglected, or abandoned, but how often do we think or even notice a child is being verbally/emotionally abused? Statistics show that every twelve of 1,000 children up to the age of eighteen in the United States were found

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    abused physically and mentally. There are so many kinds of child abuse, or abuse in general, that we may not know we are being abused. Abusing isn’t only in actions, but in words and feelings too. Physical abuse is when someone non-accidently hurts you in a way that doesn’t make you comfortable or makes you feel that you are more of a slave than a human. Another form of abuse is sexual abuse. This is when someone old is using a child for a sexual purpose. Thought this may rarely occur to little

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    Sociology Child Abuse

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    Next, in the child abuse topic is the mentality. In the book, Child Stress and Disorders, gave two definition of mental abuse: psychological maltreatment and neglect. Psychological maltreatment is “... a continuing pattern of parental behavior that is psychologically destructive to the child.” It includes most if not all, rejection, terrorization, isolation, and corruption. Rejection is when “the parents does not acknowledge their child's needs”, terrorization is when “parents verbally assaults the

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    Child Sexual Abuse Prevention The purpose of this literature review is to evaluate the information that has been collected in the area of child sexual abuse prevention. From the research studies critically examined, a decision will be made as to what areas improvements need to be made in, in order to adequately outfit children, teachers and child care workers with the skills and knowledge to help prevent child sexual abuse. An exploratory study entitled “Child Sexual Abuse Prevention” was conducted

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    CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE 21084661 UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON BSc (Hons) SOCIAL WORK HS60020E/0 Abstract Childhood sexual abuse is a serious concern that has been associated with long term effects amongst survivors. Using secondary data, this qualitative piece of research explores the long term effects of child sexual abuse in later adult

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    Elder and child abuse are the growing problem that affect a person from any ethnic backgrounds or social statues. The natural growing of this problem remains hidden from public view. That’s because this victim are scare to report so they live in fear. Child and elder abuse include physical abuse, neglect and sexual abuse. Elder abuse is often unnoticed yet growing problem in our society. For many older persons, the overview of extended life means additional pain and suffering due to the abuse or neglect

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    Child Abuse Thesis

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    miracle called a child, and unfortunately not all people can handle the responsibility that comes with said child. It happens so often anymore, that all over the world there are children terrified, due to child abuse. Whether it is physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse or neglect it is a worldwide problem. Child Abuse Everyone does not see child abuse in the same light. Therefore, there had to be laws set to determine a broad spectrum to what could be considered child abuse. “Federal law

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    The increasing trend of child sexual abuse is one of the most important and significant subject of discussion in the present time. In simple terms child sexual abuse refers to using, the child for sexual molestation and sexual stimulation by an adult. This might also include any kind of sexual activity with the child or any kind of indecent exposure. Child pornography, child rape and child prostitution are all a part of this. Symptoms of child sexual abuse can be psychological or physical or both

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