Physical Child Abuse Research Paper

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Physical child abuse paper In social work, you learn about population that are at risk. They have the homeless, veterans, immigrants, etc. The most important populations at risk is the children because children are the future of the world. When children have the right upbringing, they have the potential to become president, governor, judges, doctors, priest, scientist etc. This theory also could work in opposite way too. In the 1930s a child was made to watch his father have sex with prostitutes. The father would have all his children sit in a circle as he had sex with these women night after night. That child grew up to be the famous Boston straggler and he killed over 12 women at random. What the Boston straggler …show more content…

in age 4-9 years it is stated that most reasons they don’t say anything is because the child doesn’t want to get the parent in trouble or they believe it suitable punishment for their actions. In some cases, the child is scared that no one would believe them. In the later years (10-15 years old) feel a shame or guilt about telling someone. The effects of child abuse are the child becomes submissive to anyone in authority or has power over them. They believe that disobedience will lead to a strong beating. Children feel like they get hit for no reason tend to get a certain deep inside them. which cause them to be violence towards the kids at school. Last one is a child might be fearful as in if anyone comes close they cringe and noticing these behaviors you could suspect that a child is being abused. A very effect law put in place is mandated reporting. Mandated reporting is any social workers, teachers and other school personnel, physicians and other health care workers, mental health professionals, child care providers, medical examiners, and law enforcement personnel has the right to report any form of abuse done on a vulnerable population. This law was improved farther by stating if anyone sees …show more content…

By adding the second part the law they had a significant increase in reports. People who was convinced of sexual child abuse gets their names put on a website. When it is physical abuse the criminal faces charges of losing parental guardianship to jail time. There are many programs put in place to help child abuse victims, families, and the organization that helps with that is the Children’s Bureau is a federal agency organized under the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families. CB (children’s Bureau) has department of child abuse and neglect run by the secretary of health and services. It’s going to act as overseer making sure that all other programs are doing their part. Such as the CBCAP (Community-based Child Abuse Prevention) job is to support community based

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