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marriage of close relatives is to prevent inbreeding, or consanguinity. The reasoning behind such prohibitions revolve around the...

who can take care of her and so Janie is married unhappily to a man named Logan Killicks. In Chapter Four, it is easy to see that ...

boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...

author Nick Davies investigates the problems of drug abuse in Britains largest cities. The slums, ghettos, and red-light areas he...

haven for crime, violence and poverty. The inner cities of one city are no different than the inner cities anywhere else around t...

1994). Physical abuse are aggressive acts such as hitting, punching, kicking, shaking, or burning a childe while sexual abuse can...

view According to experts, financial abuse is when someone uses another persons property or assets -- and in the case of t...

childhood, that influenced the function of their own offending (Gerber, 1994). Goncu (1993) also applied a Kleinian mode...

that occurred in New York, before laws were implemented to take care of these harsh conditions. What is not widely reported is the...

the child is going to avert further physical and/or emotional battering. It stands to reason that children who are forced to endu...

fiction? Before examining this issue in greater detail, it should be noted that scientific research oftentimes classifies any ins...

(physical, sexual, and emotional), neglect (physical, medical, and educational), abandonment, and multiple maltreatments that enco...

these characteristics are the fact that women tend to bond more strongly with children then men do; they tend to prefer "older and...

want to accept glib explanations for the signs of abuse because they do not want to feel that they have to get involved in a domes...

6 felony. Signed by former Governor Jane Dee Hull on May 4, 1999, the law gave animal protection agencies the legal teeth it need...

well taken, because there is still an attitude in society in general that abuse only occurs among "those" people; i.e., the poor, ...

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

if the child in question has been the victim themselves and in such cases recommends a course of treatment rather than incarcerati...

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

when an examination is undertaken of the way in which human rights are protected, the value of independent organisations such as A...

by the family after the family attacked a hospital patient. Batty (2002) provides a timeline of child protection legislatio...

to mothers drowning their own children for convenience. Society must care for its children. There is a need for the government ...

Clearly, even the World Health Organization cannot succinctly define "drug abuse" in a manner that is able to be consistently appl...

The excessive use of alcohol by the male member of domestic couples could be expected to place a couple at greater risk for experi...

European Monetary Union has not just developed out of the recognized need for economic stability, but also from the perception tha...

in certain populations. A study conducted by Dawson and Grant (1998) concluded that alcohol dependence has a distinct correlate t...

within the scope of this relationship commonly provided substantive information about the emotional status of the individual. ...

As a result, art therapy may be use in evaluating whether a child who has been sexually abused has formed a normative view of sexu...

this argument we see that the giant is the handicapped child. The entire town is frightened of him because he is a giant. He does ...

juveniles in adult prison are at a far greater risk for abuse than are the adults in prison. The following presents some of those ...