Child abuse can be defined as a physical, sexual or emotional harm inflicted on the child. Different types of offenders may include punching, shaking, pounding, burning or even biting the child physically, sexual forms of child abuse may include incest, molestation, touching and exposing the child to sexual activity that may be unacceptable and may not want to include themselves.
The emotional conditions include reproach, torture, violence, embarrassment and insult. Many also claim that neglecting the child’s needs is also classified as violence, for example not providing the children with water and food, depriving them of shelter, clothes and other life necessities which in one way or the other also harm the child.
During the past several years, there has been a renewed national concern about drug abuse, culminating in the current “war on drugs. ” In this review, we emphasize that even though child or teenage drug use is an individual behavior, it is embedded in a sociocultural context that strongly determines its character and manifestations. Our … Read more
Since 1972, Prevent Child Abuse America has led the way in building awareness, providing education and inspiring hope to everyone involved in the effort to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nations children. Working with chapters in 39 states and the District of Columbia, we provide leadership to promote and implement prevention efforts at … Read more
Approximately 1. 6 million murders are committed legally each year. With the exception of laws in few states, the mutilated bodies of the victims are thrown into dumpsters like pieces of rotten meat. While these victims lay waiting in the infested dumpsters to be hauled off to a landfill, the murderers are in their offices … Read more
Institution Introduction Child abuse relates to the actions of a caretaker or a parent physically, sexually, or emotionally mistreating, neglecting, or abandoning a child (Find Law 2015). The history of abuse of children is not a recent practice, but the efforts to educate the people about the child as an important person started recently. The … Read more