Physical abuse includes but is not limited to the following: • Isolating or excluding a child • Stigmatizing a child • Withholding love, support, or guidance • Treating a child who is a victim as a suspect (repeated questioning and investigation) • Failing to provide a supportive environment • Failing to give a child an appropriate sense of self (for example, criticizing weight) • Main caregiver(s) does not respond to a child's emotional needs • Treating or looking at a child with disdain, disrespect, denigration • Patterns of belittling, denig...

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Subsequently, Liebowitz reasons, animals and likely humans are genetically programmed to secrete endorphins in situations of social comfort such as sex, which would help them to feel both less anxious and also give them a sense of well-being. Moreover, Liebowitz notes that when people feel socially isolated or cut off from familiar figures, the brain shuts off endorphin production. ... Individuals in the nascent state put one another through tests, which if successful eventually give way to a solid love relationship, and the forming of new identities and life structures formed by the merging o...

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The CW Network's guilty pleasure TV show, Gossip Girl, gives us a glimpse into this world. ... In the "Handbook of Children, Media, and Development", authors Dina Borezekowski and Victor Strasburger note that "numerous ecological and personal factors impact an adolescent's decision to experiment with and use these different substances, including the media. ... In later episodes it is revealed that there were two reasons for Serena's disappearance from home: she had slept with her best friend Blair's boyfriend, Nate Archibald, and she had accidentally killed a...

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The prevalence of teen pregnancy according to the article Prevalence and Characteristics of Teen Motherhood in Canada "it is estimated that 40,000 adolescent girls become pregnant every year and about half of them give birth"(Al-Sahab, Bohr, Connolly, Heifetz, Tamim; 2011) a pregnancy during adolescence can have negative consequences for both the mother and the child. ... Socioeconomically these individuals are less likely to achieve finishing Secondary and postsecondary education therefore giving the individual an socioeconomically disadvantage that could lead to various other probl...

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The US Supreme Court: Sexually Motivated? Following the defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II the United States almost immediately became burdened with another challenge, that of, containing their former ally, the Soviet Union. Known as the Cold War, this conflict inspired tremendou...

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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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For the last twenty years or so, the issue of sexual harassment has received considerable attention especially since the inception of the feminist movement and the glaring examples of the Impeachment of President Clinton, the Senate's confirmation hearings for Anita Hill's charges against Supreme Co...

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In Kids Having Kids: A Robin Hood Foundation Special Report on the Costs of Adolescent Childbearing, researchers note, "During her first 12 years of parenthood, the average adolescent mother receives income and food stamps valued at just over $17,000 annually- Recent declines in pregnancy and birth rates, however, are encouraging. ... If she chooses to have the baby, she will have to decide whether to keep it herself or give it up for adoption. ...

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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. Currently, in the United States, there are a total of 722,499 individuals who are registered sex offenders (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). However, this number does not reflect every person who has committed a sexual offense. Research shows that a lot of cases go unreported whi...

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Sex offenders everywhere need to be exposed, regardless of their age or station in life, so that the public can know of their activities and take steps to protect itself against them.21 To report one abuser is perhaps to save scores of future victims.22 The typical child sex offender molests an average of 117 children, most of who do not report the offence [National Institute of Mental Health, 1988].23 Thomas Fox estimates that the "average pedophile priest abuses 285 victims."" 24 The percentage [of] pedophile priests remains controversial; AW Richard Sipe, one of the leading experts, estimat...

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