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    sister, Marian, was due to her mother poisoning her in order to make people see her as a selfless, innocent woman, who did nothing but care for her children. It can be inferred from the development of the plot that Adora’s strange mental case of Munchausen by Proxy(MBP), in which she harms her own children to gain sympathetic attention, can be correlated entirely to the reason Camille has been self-harming herself by cutting words onto her body since she was a teenager. The fact that “every time people

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    Describe how the sociological perspectives explain social problems related to the family. The family affords its members with a social uniqueness. Offspring are born into their parents’ social class, culture and race, religious conviction, and so forth. Some kids have benefits throughout life because of the social uniqueness they obtain from their parents, while others face many hindrances because the social class or race/ethnicity into which they are born is at the bottom of the social ladder. The

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    Child abuse is when a child whose parent or other person legally responsible for his/her care imposes major injury upon the child; or causes a risk of the same; or commits a sexual offense; or allows someone else to perpetrate maltreatment on a child Child maltreatment is physical or sexual or emotional abuse. the most common is negligence. This neglect would be in the form of a failure to provide basic needs which includes physical or emotional neglect; absence of intervention; emotional abuse;

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    It can be inferred from the development of the plot that Adora’s strange mental case of Munchausen by Proxy(MBP), in which she harms her own children to gain sympathetic attention, can be correlated entirely to the reason Camille has been self-harming herself by cutting words onto her body since she was a teenager. The fact that “every time people

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    EMINEM      The music business, how eminem got into the music business from his hard times living at home with his mother who was suffering from Munchausen Syndrome which means she was making Marshall (Eminem) take medicines he didnt need. First i will talk about eminems life when he was a kid and his relationship with his mother and uncle Ronnie.      Eminems father left him when he was only 6 months old and his mother was sick and sort of

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    The media broadcast of parents killing their children dominates local news, also known as filicide, the criminal act parents commit against their children. According to the FBI statistics about five infants under the age of 1 are killed each week in the United States. No particular geographical location exists for this type of crimes; filicide occurs everywhere and in any place. It appears that the seasons; summer, spring, winter or fall, weekend or weekday, nothing put a halt to the crime. The

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    The law assumes that all parents will protect and promote the interests of their children, however some do not. Therefore the state has the power to intervene and remove children from their parents to protect them from any harm. This form of child protection is the states’ greatest power. The local authority (LA) have a duty to investigate complaints if they have reason to believe that a child is at risk; this is demonstrated in the scenario where the school follows their child protection procedure

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    face the problem. What is the difference between Factitious Disorder and Munchausen’s Disorder? There are condition where intentionally the individual forged the illness or cause it to obtain attention, sympathy or emotional feedback. Therefore in Munchausen Disorder they achieve this goal through exaggerating those symptoms, intentionally faking it, than even deliberately creating real symptoms. They created complications as contaminate their own body fluids, injecting themselves bacteria in order

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    beneficence, nonmaleficence, and fidelity from the ANA Code of Ethics, discuss some available resources that might help resolve the dilemma and finally discuss the dilemma outcomes particular to this patient’s situation. Surveillance of Families Munchausen by proxy syndrome presents one of the most ambiguous forms of child abuse as most perpetrators exemplify model parenting. In the case above, set in the year 1994, Eric’s mother, Monica seemed like a model parent. She was loving and cared for Eric

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    Child abuse affects millions of children every year. Child abuse is defined as “the hurting or causing harm to a child” (Stewart, 2003, p. 6). Most people do not understand why a parent would want to hurt their children. “The general belief is that parents who maltreat their children are pathological and certainly not like us” (Polonko, 2005). It is not just parents that abuse the children it is also teachers, babysitters, and daycare workers (Stewart, 2003). Lingern (2008) reported the following:

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