Children have also been used as drug carriers, ritual killings , child labour, sale of children for future brides, informal economy (beggars), children murdered and guttered to transport drugs over seas and to supply black children overseas for new sexual experiences. ... Child line, a non-governmental organization in South Africa held a Children's Art competition where the organisation claims majority of entries showed widespread killings, sexual abuse, beatings, drugs and other related phenomena. ...

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Taking a serious look at the statistics of domestic violence, last year there were 241,000 domestic calls to law enforcement in the States of California. 70,000 of those calls occurred in Los Angeles County. ... Only one out of ten assaults is ever reported to law enforcement. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act was enforced in 1974 along with the creation of the National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect. ... Describing it as the biggest ever pedophile sweep in Switzerland, officials said the suspects included teachers, school psychologists, law enforcement officers and high ranking civil servants.15 [In 1993,] within months of Janet Reno's promise to "protect our children from abuse,"" 16 [she] tried to redefine child pornography to make it more difficult for prosecutors to go after NAMBLA child molesters.17 Unbelievably, the position taken by At...

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Child Sexual Abuse It is often said that children are our future. How we treat children and how we allow them to be treated reveals much about ourselves and about our values as a society. Over the past ten to fifteen years, child sexual abuse has surfaced as a painful issue for Canadians. W...

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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 for hundreds of years. Up until the late 1800's, a man in this country had the right to chastise his wife until the practice was declared illegal in two states (Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence Manual, p. ...

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"Sexual Violence- While the crimes of "rape- and "incest- have been on the statute books for hundreds of years, it was not until the 1970s that "sexual violence- was more fully explored and developed as a concept. Feminists drew attention to the fact that rape (then conceptualised as sexual intercourse without consent) was a crime committed by men against women, not only in dark back-alleys but in homes, workplaces, and in the context of intimate and family relationships (see Brownmiller 1975). Feminism responsible for debunking some of the myths about rape • women "ask for it...

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Physical abuse - This includes any physical harm, eg. hitting, kicking or being given drugs or alcohol. ... Child labour laws prevent adults from using children as sources of financial gain in other occupations and in the film and advertising industries, but there are no enforceable standards regulating what child athletes do or what happens to them-. ...

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Domestic Abuse consists of five major aspects: emotional, verbal, physical, sexual, and child abuse. Emotional and verbal abuse degrading comments and judgments made by the abuser toward the victim to gain emotional control. Physical and sexual abuse is used to gain absolute dominance over the submissive partner. Physical abuse refers to any strike or hit whether it be with an object or body part. Sexual abuse is when the abuser has forcible sexual interaction with the submissive partner. ...

• Word Count: 6154
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• Grade Level: High School