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or other individual. The goal of child welfare services is to provide an array of prevention and intervention services to children...

as theyre treated" (Burns, 2003). Human behavior is a complicated and curious equation. The answer to why a particular rea...

to mothers drowning their own children for convenience. Society must care for its children. There is a need for the government ...

if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...

population believes that spanking is allowable, although there are also likely many of those individuals who would prefer spanking...

told repeatedly that one is "stupid" or "lazy" or "useless." Children internalize this message and consider themselves to be all t...

harm in which a child sustains physical damage and emotional harm in which the charge is endangered psychologically. This harm ca...

(Jacobs, 1997). It was founded by the Quakers and came about because of the concern regarding the conditions of the prisons (Jacob...

Child abuse can be either an act of commission or omission (Nester, 1998). It can take the form of physical abuse, emotional abus...

The use of psychological knowledge in the courtroom, however, is becoming somewhat more common, even though physical knowledge, or...

Journal of Psychohistory, deMauses story tells a story of thousands of years of crimes against children, ranging from infanticide ...

notes that this situation arises because the community shares the same cultural values and traditions, and any deviation from thes...

and poverty has been established for many years, and it may be argued that it is the less well-off social classes children will al...

toward personal rights the Warren Court upheld was met with great consternation by conservatives who believed the Supreme Court ju...

that other psychological associations would do well to emulate. For example, it provides a student for decision-making that Canadi...

include intra-psychic, interpersonal and social factors. Stack (145) is just one researcher to investigate the effects of modern...

counselor, not wanting to agitate the situation but realizing she had to uncover more information, asked whether or not Jennifers ...

inadequate parenting and emotional abuse? 2. What do studies suggest about the impact of emotional abuse? 3. What are the long t...

the Department of Social Services (DSS) as a means by which to circumvent further physical and emotional destruction is imperative...

a higher level of education is regularly under 20% of the population (The Business Journal-Milwaukee, 1999). With an understandi...

A nonorganic failure to thrive can also be an indication of child abuse. Child abuse can entail actual physical harm in which a c...

and bravery and excitement. They beg for it many times as they beg to be spun like an airplane or hung upside down. They trust the...

1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...

(physical, sexual, and emotional), neglect (physical, medical, and educational), abandonment, and multiple maltreatments that enco...

fiction? Before examining this issue in greater detail, it should be noted that scientific research oftentimes classifies any ins...

myriad of ways. For example, someone might become "street wise" and make sure their pocketbook is held tightly. They can continual...

want to accept glib explanations for the signs of abuse because they do not want to feel that they have to get involved in a domes...

these characteristics are the fact that women tend to bond more strongly with children then men do; they tend to prefer "older and...

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

In eight pages child abuse is examined in terms of legal definition, history, social occurrence based on statistics, treatment, an...