Violence against women is a critical public health concern, that has both devastating physical and emotional abuse for all involved. Many women are abused mentally, physically, and sexually by partners and strangers. Domestic violence during the last twenty years has been acknowledged as a huge grow...
Child abuse includes assaults in any of many areas-- physical, sexual, or emotional-- and may be acts of commission (abuse) or omission (neglect) (Zigler, 1989). Child maltreatment and neglect includes a variety of intentional actions or lack of actions by a parent or caregiver that causes harm to ...
This is interesting to note because it would seem to indicate that, if these individuals were willing to take on the responsibility of caring for strangers, it was proof that there were many people who did care about the welfare of children. ...
Sexual abuse of children is currently recognized as a serious problem with long-time effects on both the children and the adult survivor. Child sexual abuse is reported up to 80,000 times a year, but the number of unreported is far greater because children are afraid to tell anyone what has happene...
