Before the introduction of risk assessment methods in child protection in the 1980's the assessment and prediction of children at risk from abuse was a capricious business: care workers had no theory, or methodology and no strategy by which to determine which children were more at risk than others "they worked almost in the dark" (Corby 1990). When risk assessment strategies were introduced their enormous advantage was to give some orientation and means of prediction to social workers in their efforts to determine which children were at the highest risk. ... Lyon (2002) states that h...

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Spousal abuse is defined as any intentional act or series of acts that cause injury to the spouse (Wallace, 2002 p.180). ... According to Brommel and Galvin, "interactive complexity" refers to each act as a response to a previous behavior and a stimulus to a future reaction; therefore, it is meaningless to assign cause and effect (p.60). ...

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Meghna Guhathakurta - Gender Violence in Bangladesh As far as biological reproduction is concerned, the Bangladesh state follows an interventionist strategy through its birth-control and family planning policies. ... Regardless of the adoption of birth-control methods, an increasing number of women and their children have been driven to work, out of sheer destitution, while at the same time, women traditionally engaged in agricultural production (given the existing division of labour).e.g. in paddy husking, have been increasingly displaced and marginalized due to mechanization in such spheres....

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In Snow White, the wicked queen told her hunter to take her stepdaughter into the woods and cut out her heart because she was more beautiful than her. Even Mother Goose's in "Old Woman in the Shoe" whipped her children soundly and sent them to bed without any bread (Straus, Gelles & Steinmetz, 1980...

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The female is, as it were, a mutilated a sort of natural deficiency. It is not appropriate in a female character to be manly or clever. The male is by nature superior and the female inferior." Introduction Domestic violence has been present in our society and an accepted practice of many cultures fo...

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