...Exposure to any type of abuse is detrimental to a person’s physical and emotional wellbeing. For the purposes of this paper, the focus is on the mental, emotional or psychological abuse of women by their intimate partners. These terms are interchangeable and interrelated types of non-physical abuse. This perspective concentrates on the wellbeing of the victim only. Who are the victims? According to research by Chiu et al. (2013) adulthood physical and emotional abuse and lifetime sexual abuse was reported 85% more by women than men. Reports of abuse varied by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Findings also determined an overlap between types of abuse and individuals who experienced childhood abuse had a greater risk of being abused...
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...Women, Men and children deal with domestic abuse. Having the knowledge of abuse increases awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault, ending the stigma surrounding both that can often keep victims from seeking urgently-needed help. The services provided are counseling, housing assistance, and childcare along with future life skills. Ruben’s Safe House is the largest provider of domestic violence services in the United States and the largest provider of domestic violence residence for battered women and men. Our shelter provide more than 600 beds throughout Florida, operating both emergency shelters for crisis situations and transitional housing where families may stay for several months in order to plan for future free from violence. The shelters offer comprehensive services including counseling, housing assistance, life skills and parenting courses, childcare, and medical aid. Summary We define domestic violence as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another partner. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. “This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone” (Safehorizon.org). Domestic violence is a pattern of behavior used to establish power and control over another person through...
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...find out the various abuse and exploitation in five key areas of human rights abuse. Child abuse or maltreatment constitutes all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment or commercial or other kind of exploitation, resulting potential harm to the children’s health, survival and development in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust or power; 40 million children below the age of 15 suffer from abuse and neglect. Gang violence-100 percent of cities with populations greater than or equal to 250,000 reported gang activity. Child labors-246 million children’s, one of every six children of 5 to 17 ages, are involved in child labor. Child soldiers-UNICEF...
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...Abuse Experienced by Adults P1: Describe forms of abuse which may be experienced by adults P2: Describe indicators that abuse may be happening to adults Abuse can be a singular act or multiple acts. Abuse can occur in any relationship and can be the direct result of deliberate intent, ignorance or neglect. It may be a criminal offence, such as rape, assault or theft. Abuse can occur anywhere: * In public places * In the victims own home * At work * In hospital * In places of worship * In care homes * At day care The abuser can be anyone, a man or a woman. An abuser could be a * Neighbour * Someone who goes to the day centre * Family member * Volunteer * Paid health or social care worker * Teacher * Clergyman Type Of Abuse | Definition Of The Abuse | Example Of The Abuse | Indicators Of The Abuse | Physical | Physical abuse is a form of abuse involving contact that is intended to cause feelings of intimidation, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm.Physical abuse can occur through withholding care, preventing access to healthcare or applying inappropriate techniques or treatments. It can include forced isolation and confinement, for example, people being locked in their room, and inappropriate methods of restraint. | Striking, punching, pushing, pulling slapping, biting, whipping, striking with an object, kicking, tripping, kneeing, strangling, rape, placing in stress positions (tied...
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...Violence Domestic Violence Domestic violence can affect anyone. Domestic violence is a pattern of behavior used to establish power and control over another through emotional attack, fear, and intimidation. Domestic violence or battering, often, includes the threat or use of violence; this violence is a crime. Battering occurs when one person believes he/she is entitled to control another. Domestic violence affects people in all social, economic, racial, religious, and ethnic groups; whether the couple is married, divorced, living together, or still dating. Another reality is that abusers and their victims can be gay, strait, young, or old. Violence develops from verbal, physical, emotional, financial, and sexual abuse. Most domestic violence victims are women by men, but that doesn’t suggest that others cannot be battered or are perpetrators of abuse -- such as women on men, or same sex abuse. Battering or domestic violence, is now mutual and it is not a ‘couple’s quarrel’. Disagreements arise occasionally in all relationships, but battering involves every aspect of a relationship. While physical violence is the “enforcer” or the criminal act, other behaviors erode the partner or victim’s sense of self, self-determination, and free will; this is ultimately lethal for many women. Often batterers possess a low self-esteem and gain a sense of power by means of humiliating and controlling their partner. Control techniques can include verbal insults intended to bring down the...
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...Sorry Beyonce. We live in a male dominated society, what is male dominance? Male Dominance is a live topic causing differences of opinion and acrimonious arguments. The differences often revolve around whether dominance is part of man's inherent male nature or whether it comes from how they are nurtured. Men display male dominance through various ways, it could be as simple as a handshake, telling a woman what to do, or as complex or crazy as using abuse to show dominance. In a male dominated society men get favored in most aspects in life. Through education, law, or daily privileges. Why do we have an overabundance of more male pastors and so few female pastors? Why have we never...
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...doing all they can within their power to protect them. There are many different types of abuse that may occur and it is important for care workers to have awareness and knowledge regarding types of maltreatment, risk of maltreatment and indicators of maltreatment in order to take appropriate actions and promote the safety of the child or young person. If someone is to deliberately cause a child physical harm this is physical abuse. Physical abuse may be displayed in the form of hitting, kicking, biting, drowning, suffocating or using items within the environment to cause harm such as throwing objects at the child or by using a match or oven to burn them. There may be many signs and indicators of physical abuse. Children often fall over and bump into objects due to poor awareness and coordination, meaning they may have bruises and cuts on their body. It is important for care workers to keep this in mind and maintain perspective of the situation. However it may be cause for concern when an injury is unexplained, for instance if the child has injuries that the care worker has not been informed about for example if it happened in the morning when a different staff member was on duty and they did not pass along or record this information, or if the child can't seem to properly explain where the injury came from for example by telling the care worker “I tripped over my toys and hurt my knee.” It may also be cause for concern and an indicator of abuse if the bruises are of large quantity...
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...of violence by at least one member of an unmarried couple on the other member within the context of dating courtship. This also includes dating between same sex couples, although most statistics have been gathered from heterosexual couples. Teen dating violence differs from adult domestic violence in that when a teenager is abused, she or he becomes isolated from their peers due to the controlling behavior of the partner. Intimate partner violence among adolescents is associated with an increased risk of substance use, unhealthy weight control behaviors, sexual risk behaviors, suicide and pregnancy. (Dobash, 2000) According to Dutton (1995) teenage victims of dating violence are more likely than their peers who have not undergone abuse to smoke, use drugs, engage in unhealthy diet behaviors, like taking diet pills or laxatives and vomiting or develop bulimia in an attempt to lose weight. They may also start engaging in risky sexual behaviors and attempt or even start considering suicide. Apparently one in five female public school students, in a study carried out in Texas, reported having experienced...
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...Child Protection The process of protecting children from abuse or neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development, and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.’ (Source: Working Together to Safeguard Children, 2006). It is essential that children are safeguarded from maltreatment and impairment of their health and development not only to prevent the terrible day-today suffering some children are subjected to, but also to ensure that children are safe from these abuses to protect their long-term well-being (Combrink-Graham, 2006: 480). Deliberate and sustained maltreatment, which includes physical, emotional and sexual abuse of children, is not confined to any particular group or culture; it pervades all groups, classes and cultures. So as practitioners it is our professional duty of care to ensure that every child has the same amount of safeguarding as the next. It is also vital that as Early Years professionals we understand the roles and procedures of the services available for children and families so that we may offer the best advice possible. There are two areas of guidance statutory and non-statutory. A service which is defined as statutory is one that the Local Authority have a legal duty to supply. The Local Authority is obliged by statute to provide some services, for example, social services, NHS hospital...
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...Sexual abuse in children and teens. From 2009-2013, CPS agencies found strong evidence to indicate that 63000 children a year were victims of sexual abuse. Most people don't understand why someone would want to rip the innocence from a child. Most perpetraitors end up in prison. Child sexual abuse is when someone innapropiately touches a child. A child cannot consent to any form of sexual activity. When someone engages with a child in this way, they are commiting a crime that can have lasting effects on the victim. Child sexual abuse is not always physical contact. Some forms of child sexual abuse are: fondling, intercourse, sex trafficking, exhibitionism, obscene phone calls or messages, also owning pornagraphic images or videos of a minor. This is usally seen in rural areas of low income single parent families with a love in partner and with multiple children. Physical abuse is also seen, and this is when disciplinary actions get out of hand. In serious cases the parent or guardian is removed and the child is placed with a family member or foster family for the time being. After a child is placed in the system there are services provided to the families that need assistance with the protection and care of the child. The system arranges adoption or permanent family conection for the child once they leave foster...
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...domestic violence is brought up. Domestic abuse occurs in all races, all economic backgrounds, and in all levels of society and the effects of the abuse can last a lifetime, and the reasons women stay in violent relationships are numerous and multifaceted. There is no black or white reason as to why women stay in abusive relationships. Due to the media and advocacy programs domestic violence is gaining more and more awareness. However, the attention on domestic violence tends to focus on the physical abuse and the effects that causes. The emotional abuse that occurs within a violent relationship is considered just as damaging to the victim if not more. According to the National Coalitional against Domestic Violence, the definition of domestic violence is the “willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another.” As one can see, domestic violence reaches much further than physical violence, but those issues are often overlooked. Even though men can be victims of domestic violence, statistics show that one in four women experience domestic violence in their lifetime (Office of Women’s Health). The form of abuse that is used against the victim is not limited to, but can include isolation, threats, intimidation, and economic abuse. Each one of these forms of abuse causes the victim grave distress and even though they are not a physical assault in nature they are still forms of...
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...What is child abuse? 3 Emotional abuse 3 Emotional neglect 3 Physical neglect 3 Physical abuse 3 Sexual abuse___________________________________________________________________________ 3 Causes of Child Abuse 4 Parental Profile 4 Age of the parents 4 Low self-confidence 4 Past history of abuse 4 Drug and alcohol problems 4 Mental health problems 4 Financial instability ____________________________________________________________________ 4 The Cinderella effect____________________________________________________________________ 4 Child characteristics 5 The short and long term impacts 5 The short term impacts that this issue may have on an abused child 5 The long term impacts that this issue may have on an abused child _____________________________ 5-6 Political Power, Economics and Human Rights 6 How abuse is linked to these issues________________________________________________________ 6-7 Possible solutions to child abuse 7 What can I do to make a difference? 8 Reference list 8 CHILD ABUSE What is child abuse? Child abuse is defined as the wilful and unjustifiable infliction of pain and suffering whereby the survival, safety, self-esteem, growth and development of a child are endangered. Child abuse can take many different forms. These do not only include sexual and physical abuse, but also emotional abuse and neglect. There are five main types of child abuse: Emotional abuse Emotional abuse is a constant...
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...This assignment will describe the forms of abuse which may be experienced by adults; describing indicators that abuse may be happening to adults. It will then look at factors that may lead to abusive situations and assess the possible immediate effects of two different forms of abuse. The abuse that will be specifically looked at will be sexual and financial abuse, further extending by evaluating the potential long term effects of the two types of abuse. Abuse is a violation of a person’s civil and human rights. There are different types of abuse and they all set out to intentionally or unintentionally put a person at risk and cause harm. An individual may not disclose that the abuse is taking place due to fear, being aware of indicators that abuse may be happening to a person will help protect and put a stop to the abuse. Domestic abuse is when a person in a close relationship with another person’s acts in a way that causes physical, emotional or mental harm. Domestic abuse can include threatening behaviour or violence and it can be physical, psychological, financial, sexual or discriminatory. Physical abuse can be demarcated as a deliberate act which injures a person by using bodily contact. Physical abuse may be caused by using violence in forms such as, hitting, punching or kicking. Physical abuse can also be cause by Using medication to cause harm to a person, for example, giving too little or too much medicine which in turn will cause harm to the individual. Using...
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...How is the abuse of power shown in two works that you have studied? The works I have studied and will be exploring in this essay are Mary Shelly’s ‘Frankenstein’ and Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’. In ‘Frankenstein’ the abuse of power is most clearly exhibited by the protagonist of the story Frankenstein himself, his abuse of power results in his isolation and could serve as a warning to people, telling them not to play with forces that they can not control. In ‘Heart of Darkness’, Conrad abuses his power as the author to distance himself from the novella and in a sense absolve himself from any racist criticism the book may induce. The abuse of power is also a key theme in the novella itself. Firstly there is a sense of hypocrisy in the novella where the abuse of power is concerned, Marlow seems to have a slight reluctance to abuse his power over the natives, however he abuses his power before he even gets to the Congo, when he attains the job unfairly through the position held by his aunt in the company. Secondly the idea that the white western men have a superior culture and feel the need to impose their civility on the outrageous and almost in-human savages inhabiting the Congo is the most obvious abuse of power implicated in the short story. Overall the abuse of power in both novels is shown to end badly for the party involved. Marlow sees the abuse of power leave people without their minds, and Shelly’s novel also demonstrates this to some degree, but highlights...
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...care 1.1 Physical abuse is an act of another party involving contact intended to cause feelings of physical pain, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm including hitting, slapping, pushing, kicking, or inappropriate sanctions Sexual abuse is a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat. Including encouraging relevant individuals to look at pornography, harassing them by making sexual suggestions or comments, or sexual acts where the individual has not consented or could not consent or was pressured into consenting. Emotional/psychological abuse is subjecting an individual to bullying tactics such as threats.These bullies can take away the self-confidence of their victim and sometimes render them brain washed into believing they will never make a go of it on their own or they are ugly, fat, that the opposite sex wouldn't want them; they are stupid because they may have not got high enough marks in school, or in the elderly threatening to put the elderly person in a home if they do not do as the abuser's wishes. Mental and emotional abuse can be between couples in a relation, siblings, elderly abuse or abusing one's peers. Including emotional abuse, threats of harm or abandonment, deprivation of contact, humiliation, blaming, controlling, intimidation, harassment, verbal abuse, isolation or withdrawal from services or supportive networks. Financial abuse is a form of...
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