Child abuse consists of any act of commission or omission that endangers or impairs a child's physical or emotional health and development. ... To be considered child abuse these sexual acts must be committed by a person responsible for the care of a child or a person related to the child. Each of these forms of child abuse are very different in definition, but it doesn't matter what form of abuse the child undergoes, the child still suffers dramatically from each. ... Non-organic Failure to Thrive (NFTT) is a condition found in infants in which their height and weight are below...

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I have found several statistics regarding child offenders. ... Currently it is estimated that juveniles account for up to one-fifth of the rapes, 3and one-half of the cases of child molestation 4committed in the United States each year. ... For example, if a child experiences hostility from older relatives or witnesses the father raping and or beating the mother, the social support for deviance overcome social controls and the child embraces deviant values and behaviors. Definitions of right and wrong are extremely varied, and in this culture conflict the attitudes towards criminal behavior o...

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Spanish director Julio Medem's fifth film, Sex and Lucí, is a passionate and frequently erotic tale on love, loss, sex and fantasy. The story follows its main character, Lucí, on her quest to the truth behind the tragic death of her boyfriend, the novelist Lorenzo. The movie starts with Lucí rece...

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Sexual education classes are offered in public school as early as the fifth grade, but many times they can not inform the student of all the choices and consequences of sex because of the particular school district. ... It openly discusses keeping the child, adoption, and perhaps the least often discussed, abortion. ...

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Although crime victim surveys produce more accurate estimates of incidence and prevalence rates than police statistics, and confirm that many offences are not reported to police, they too are acknowledged to underestimate violent crimes of an intimate nature, particularly sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse (Grabosky 1989; National Committee on Violence 1990). ... Child victims There were 2,858 victims of sexual assault under the age of 10 recorded by the police in 1997. ... About one-fifth reported some other kind of sexual assault. ...

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Sex offenders are a highly diverse group of people, but all are individuals who have at least one of the following crimes in common: have committed violent sexual assault on a stranger, have had inappropriate sexual contact with a family member, have molested a child or any other inappropriate and criminal sexual behavior. ... Nearly all juvenile sexual offenders are a mix of heterogenous males ages 13-17, most likely to victimize females, unless the victim is a child, in which the proportion of boys is much higher (Hunter, 1999; Kalogerakis, 1992; Finkelhor, 2009). ... Research indicates tha...

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Abstract Megan's Law is named after seven-year-old Megan Kanka, a girl who was raped and killed by a known child molester who had moved across the street from the family without their knowledge. ... Megan's Law and Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention Megan's Law is named after seven-year-old Megan Kanka, a girl who was raped and killed by a known child molester who had moved across the street from the family without the community's knowledge. ... Offenders who had victimized a child were on average 5 years older than the violent offenders who had committed their crimes ...

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