Child Abuse and Drugs
In the United States, on average, a child is abused every 13 seconds. Because of social awareness, reported child abuse has increased dramatically since the 1980s. Some states ha...
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Child Abuse and Drugs
In the United States, on average, about twelve out of every 1,000 children are abused or neglected each year. A precise number may be impossible, as many cases are never reported...
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Child Abuse
Child abuse is the blanket term for four types of child mistreatment: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. In many cases children are the victims of more than one ty...
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Child Abuse, Physical
Alternative Terms: Battered Child, Child Maltreatment, Family Violence
Physical child abuse refers to harm to the child inflicted by the caregiver. Every year, nearly 1,400 cases...
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Child Abuse, Sexual and Emotional
Committed acts of sexual or emotional assault or neglect on a child.
Child abuse includes assaults in any of several domains (physical, sexual, or emotional) and may ...
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National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse
The National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse (NCPC A) is a volunteer-based organization of concerned citizens in the corporate, civic, lay, and professional ...
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In November 2000, a San Jose man was riding in a female coworker’s car when he thought he heard a child moaning. According to Sergeant Steve Dixon of the San Jose Police Department, the man &ldq...
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“We must give the public balanced views of the [child abuse] problem and its solution. Yes, we need to hear about the horrible cases of violent and deadly abuse. But we also need to know about t...
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"Each day in the United States more than three children die as a result of child abuse in the home" (Child Help USA 1/5). This statistic is too high and there need to be changes to overcome this prob...
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Imagine that you see a parent throwing a kid up against the cart and smacking them a couple of times. How would that make you feel. public punishment should be permitted. Two reasons why it shouldn't ...
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How do you feel when you read about the latest beating, torture or death of a child? Most of us are sickened, sad and angry, but maybe what's less obvious is that physical and sexual abuse, and the ne...
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"Child Abuse, including sexual exploration of children, is a problem reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S. Many sociologists believe that the abused child often goes on to become a violent crimi...
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Most people do not realize that child abuse is not just physical. Kids are abused with words, actions, and lack of interest. Making fun of a child, name-calling, always finding fault, and showing no...
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