Individuals who are obstructed or prevented from becoming competent or from being able to communicate their opinions, emotions and desires experience forms of oppression. ... Another form of abuse children experience is sexual abuse. ... State services focusing on housing issues often fail to effectively support adolescents who are leaving foster care and making the transition to adulthood. ... It is important for children to experience a positive childhood to ensure a health successful adulthood. ... Learning Experience For this part of the assignment I participated in 2 things. ...

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Many children who experience abuse (particularly those from low income families) are eventually taken away from their abuser and brought into the foster care program. ... In those families are mothers who have had an extreme experience of child abuse which led to psychological distress in adulthood, and which contributed to them abusing their own children. ... "Elevated mental health problems have similarly been found for children whose parents experience substance abuse" (Lindsey et al., 2008, p. 80). ...

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(www.angelfire.com/f12/ChildAbuse) A large problem relating back to sexual abuse is the fact that the "sexually abused may become sexual abusers themselves, as well they may become prostitutes, or have other serious problems when they reach adulthood." ... "Two out of every three female children and one out of every three male children will experience an unwanted sexual act before they reach adulthood." ...

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"The sexual abusers of children are highly dissimilar in terms of personal characteristics, life experiences, and criminal histories" (doc1). ... "Tests of the recapitulation theory on a sample of 131 rapists and child molesters revealed that child molesters who committed their first assault when they were 14 or younger were sexually victimized at a younger age than offenders who committed their first assault in adulthood; they also experienced more severe sexual abuse than offenders with adult onset of sexual aggression" (doc1). ... A twenty eight year old man was using a bulletin board sys...

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Locke and Newcomb (2004) state that, "Adverse childhood experiences influence later drug use. ... Indeed, the bad effects of alcoholic parents became apparent long before adulthood, as examined by Berkowitz and Perkins (1988), which demonstrated that adolescent children of alcoholics had already shown signs of greater self-depreciation. ...

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