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- 291: Domestic Violence
- ... violence, in domestic violence situations the same perpetrator repeatedly assaults the same victim. These assaults are often in the form of physical injury, but may also be in the form of sexual assault. However the abuse is not only physical and sexual, but also psychological. Psychological abuse means intense and repetitive humiliation, creating isolation, and controlling the actions of the victim through intimidation or manipulation. Domestic violence tends to become more frequent and severe over time. Oftentimes the abuser is physically violent ... effects for individual victims, their children and their communities. In addition to these immediate effects, there is growing evidence that violence within the "family becomes the breeding ground for other social problems such as substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, and violent crimes of all types" (MTCAWA e-mail interview). Domestic violence against women is not merely a domestic issue; but, rather a complex socio-economical crisis that threatens the interconnected equilibrium ...
- 292: Euthanasia And Suicide
- ... to the fact that some parents and doctors believe that recognized disabilities of the fetus based on genetic tests is a justifiable reason to commit euthanasia or abortion to end suffering. But a Down syndrome child can still find a loving home and can still live a productive life, even if some may view it negatively based on prejudices against those with disabilities and the view that their lifes must ... article says that those who support physician assisted suicide often seek to distinguish it from active euthanasia, but that the two face similar objections. Nicholas says that both do the following: 1) can lead to abuse; 2) implicate the physician in the death of a patient; 3) violate whatever objection there are to killing. Nicholas says that the case for legalizing active euthanasia is morally indistinguishable from the case for legalizing ... will not cover it. Dixon Nicholas (1998) article raises the slippery slope issue, that either of the two main types of euthanasia, including active and passive euthanasia both create too great of a danger of abuse due to coercion from doctors, family members, institutions, or other social forces to end ones life. However Quill, Cassel, and Meier say that assisted suicide is solely the final act of the patient and ...
- 293: Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... and '40's stimulant drugs were first used to successfully treat many behavior problems due partly to Still's hypothesis. In 1960, Stella Chess further boosted research in the field by writing about the hyperactive child syndrome. She stated that the behavior problems weren't a product of injury at birth, but instead were inherited genetically. Finally, in 1980, the syndrome was named A. D. D., due in large part to ... diagnose the syndrome and aren't formally recognized. The six most interesting, though not necessarily most prevalent, are A. D. D. without hyperactivity, A. D. D. with agitation or mania, A. D. D. with substance abuse, A. D. D. in the creative person, high-stim A. D. D., and pseudo-A. D. D. The first subtype, A. D. D. without hyperactivity, is the most frequently seen subtype. A common misconception about ... D. A difficult twist to diagnosis is that the two may coexist. This occurs when the person cycles between mania and A. D. D. (Hallowell 169). The third subtype is A. D. D. with substance abuse. Substance abuse is one of A. D. D.'s hardest masks to see through because the abuse itself can produce A. D. D.-like symptoms. Often when a person with A. D. D. has ...
- 294: Jeffrey Dahmer
- ... psychopath? Very few convincing answers are forthcoming, despite a spate of books that propose to understand the problem. Many of the theories would have you believe that the answers can always be found in childhood abuse, bad parenting, head trauma, fetal alcoholism and drug addiction. Perhaps in some cases, these are contributing factors, but not for Jeffrey Dahmer. His father, Lionel Dahmer, wrote a very sad and poignant book called A Father's Story which explores the very common phenomenon of a parents trying desperately to give their child a good upbringing and discovering to their horror that their child has built a high wall around himself from which their influence is progressively shut out. While fortunately, most parents do not have a Jeffrey Dahmer to raise, too many have seen their children succumb ...
- 295: False Memory Syndrome
- ... centred around a memory of traumatic experience which is false but the person strongly believes is true. Increasingly in grown adults undergoing therapy come to believe they suffer from repressed memories of incest and sexual abuse. This has a devastating effect on the victim and the victim grows a dependence to the program that creates the syndrome. Their memories may have been created through suggestive and invasive techniques, especially if no evidence of abuse. There is a lot of controversy surrounding the fact if this condition is real, yet both sides both have their cases. False Memory Syndrome can be created by mere wisps of suggestion. Bits and pieces ... remembering a dream. Source memory is highly prone to suggestion and if you imagine it enough and use the source of the information then you have a false memory. With thousands of allegations of sexual abuse and incest against patients parents, this is one of the results of recovered memory therapy which may have been just victims of the fad. These results of the allegations are often devastating to the ...
- 296: The Impact And Outcome Of Pain
- By: robbert verwaayen The impact and the outcome of pain The impact of sexual abuse reaches all levels of Childs emotions. Confusion: This is usually the first reaction of the child. They will usually question, What is going on? and Is this right or wrong? For a young child these questions can be a huge load on their psychological development. Once the abuse begins the victim experience a tremendous conflict with their emotions. They experience pain, guilt, and anger for what is being ...
- 297: Great Expectations
- ... within his work. Perhaps the reason why these two novels share some of the same qualities is because they both reflect painful experiences which occurred in Dickens' past. During his childhood, Charles Dickens suffered much abuse from his parents.1 This abuse is often expressed in his novels. Pip, in Great Expectations, talked often about the abuse he received at the hands of his sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery. On one occasion he remarked, "I soon found myself getting heavily bumped from behind in the nape of the neck and the small ...
- 298: The Whipping=evaluation=1200 W
- ... her prey and entraps it right before she devours it s helpless flesh. In addition, the crippling fat paints a grotesque image of the mother allowing us to form a bias of this fat, ugly, child-beating beast. Hayden has set the foundation for his poem with his brilliant usage of the setting and characterization. Hayden uses his third stanza to develop the action in the poem. She strikes and strikes ... till the stick breaks in her hand. (9-10). These two lines describe the kind of sadistic beating that the boy is receiving. This is not an average everyday spanking. The antagonist actually hits the child until the stick cannot withstand anymore. The usage of alliteration allows the reader to incorporate that the boy is screaming and running in circles all while receiving the beating. Hayden then says, His tears are ... sins, and impurities. This usage of purged guides the reader into the next two lines. avenged in part for lifelong hidings / she has had to bear (23-24). The woman feels redemption after beating her child because she was abused in her life also. This final stanza answers the question of why is the mother so abusive to her child? In no way does the Whipping justify child abuse just ...
- 299: Abuse Of The Innocent
- ... it couldn't breathe. It was in dreadful, dreadful distress. I forgot everything and went near it and said something to it, and it buried its head in it's arms and sobbed like a child. I never slept that night, and the next day managed to go back to the same room, but it was nearly finished by then. It had sunk to a little heap at the bottom of ...
- 300: Youth Violence
- ... crisis is engulfing this country. Over half of the people arrested for murder in the United States in 1991 were under age 25 (Wilson & Howell, 1993). The Childrens Defense fund estimates that an American child is arrested for a violent crime every five minutes and is killed by guns every 2 hours (Edelman, 1995). Over the past 10 years, our youth have appeared to commit more violent acts and to ... to help prevent youth violence by attempting to understand the nature of the problem, and by implementing recommendations to solve it. One of the best predictors of aggression and violence in young people is family abuse. Being abused or neglected as a child increases the likelihood of arrest as a juvenile by 53% (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.3). In Houston Texas, Judge Eric Andell stated that 95% of all youth seen ...
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