Child abuse is the act of harming children by neglect, physical force, violence, sexual attack, or inflicting psychological or emotional distress. Child abuse is consisting of four types of child mistreatment such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. The abusers can be the ...

The Broken Chain by M.F.K. Fisher elucidates her opinions regarding abuse and the "angry beating of helpless people, mostly children and many women". Fisher believes that physical abuse is unacceptable, however, she approves of physical punishment and makes a lucid distinction between the...

Child Abuse What is child abuse? Child abuse can be defined as any act or failure to act that endangers a child's physical or emotional health and development. There are four different kinds of child abuse: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. Child abuse is a shoc...

Walking past the television, you overhear the news anchor convey an appalling number of reported child abuse cases. Dazed and confused, you take a seat for a brief moment in an attempt to understand how such a horrific number of violent, unethical acts could be committed and how the depraved people ...

Physical attack or assault in death or physical injury of an employee in a place of business is the standard definition of workplace violence. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) defined workplace violence in 1991 as any physical assault, threatening behavior or verbal...

I would like to start out with the basic definition of abuse; it is defined as anything that is harmful, injurious, or offensive to a person animal or for that matter the environment. There are three main types of abuse I'm going to talk about today the first is physical abuse such as pushing,...

Domestic violence is a serious issue in today\'s society that is often overlooked. It affects people of all ages, races, and sexes, yet still, not many people know anything about it. There are many different types of Domestic violence in families. They include child abuse, sexual abuse, emotional ab...

Protecting the Older Adult Mary, 88 is admitted to the unit with a diagnosis of dehydration and malnutrition. The staff learns that she lives with her son and hasn't had any health care in 10 years. When they assess Mary, they note that she has difficulty seeing, even with her glasses, and sh...

Child abuse is one of the saddest and most tragic problems in America today. Many people wonder how a parent could ever abuse their child, but child abuse is becoming increasingly common in American society. It can be caused by the child\'s behavior, a parent\'s alcohol or drug abuse, or the parent\...

Critical Analysis of Journal ArticleArticle: Feldbau-Khon, S., Heyman, R., and O'Leary, K. (1998). Major depressive disorder and depressive symptomatology as predictors of husband to wife physical abuse. Violence and Victims, 13, 347-359.IntroductionThe work of Feldbau-Khon, S., Heyman, R., and O'L...

Does Spanking Lead Child Abuse? Were you spanked as a child? Do you think spanking effected you? Every parent has been in a situation where a good spanking seems like the only way to put an end to little Junior's temper tantrum. Parents use a number to reasons, some you may have heard, to ...

While this paper will highlight several different types of abuse and define them, the main focus will be on emotional abuse, which is the hardest type of abuse to spot in a child. Other names for emotional abuse are verbal abuse, mental abuse, and psychological maltreatment or abuse. Abuse does not ...

Child Abuse among the children in the United StatesChild abuse is a term generally the mistreatment of a child by a parent or another adult. There is no standard definition of child abuse, however. A short and simple definition can be limited to the life-threatening physical violence, including seve...

Teenage and young-adult violence is a growing epidemic. With the spreading violence epidemic comes widespread depression. We are now seeing more and more depression in younger and younger people. We tend to classify angry, violent, and aggressive adolescents as troubled individuals. We try to...

There are many different effects of parental abuse on children. Whether it being the direct physical abusing from the parent or just watching them abusing each other. Many children develop social and psychological problems as well as it having a negative effect on the academic performance. Some q...

My Summary of the article: Intersex The second article that I was to summarize is a different approach. It still deals with sexual situations. But the only difference is that you can actually be born with this problem, not something that you would have chosen. All of us were given a gender,...

Throughout history Child abuse has been a very upsetting subject for people to talk about. In many situations child abuse may last a long time before it is reported to authorities if it is every reported. Aside from physical abuse there is sexual and emotional. Dave Pelzer's "A Child Called It...

ABUSE Many factors contribute to the definition of abuse as stated by law. They also make note of differences between adult and child abuse. When physical abuse refers to adults, it is divided into battery and spousal abuse, which may encompass other types of abuse. The five main types of abu...

Health Care Response to Domestic ViolenceFact Sheet Email this page to a friend Domestic Violence: A pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors, including physical, sexual, and psychological attacks as well as economic coercion, that adults or adolescents use against their intimate partners.Preva...

Domestic Violence Domestic violence today is an ever increasing, horrible epidemic. Domestic violence not only affects women, it also affects children as well as men in a few cases. This epidemic encompasses not only physical but emotional types of abuse. After becoming the victim of abuse it b...

According to the National Children\'s Advocacy Center, almost three million cases of suspected child abuse and neglect are reported each year. That is nearly one child every ten seconds. A survey conducted by Children\'s Institute International found that about one-fourth of people in the United St...

Domestic Violence When I think of domestic abuse I think of television shows like Jerry Springer and Maury. Today, Americans turn stories of domestic violence into entertainment. Personally, I think it's utterly disgusting. Domestic violence is an issue that isn't taken as seriously ...

Should entertainment be blamed for youth violence? This is a question that is being asked more and more. Sadly, it is a topic brought up only after a school shooting or a youth murder. To fully understand the question, we have to understand what violence is. Violence is the use of physical force...

One of the most complicated issues facing most health care professionals and governmental agencies today is that of domestic violence. Domestic violence encompasses any violence that is inflicted upon one family member by another family member. Thus, domestic violence can be described as spouse abus...

Gender or sexual violence, can it be stopped or how can it be prevented? This forthcoming essay is going to include a number of issues relating to the ongoing battle against sexual or gender related violence in schools, and not just in schools but also in public all over this and other countries. Th...