Sentences with phrase «victims of child abuse account»

Victims of child abuse account for 19 % of the children placed in foster homes.

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«The Human Rights Act and the European convention on human rights have been instrumental in preventing local authorities from snooping on law - abiding families, in removing innocent people from the national DNA database, in preventing rapists from cross-examining their victims in court, in defending the rights of parents to have a say in the medical treatment of their children, in holding local authorities to account where they have failed to protect children from abuse, in protecting the anonymity of journalists» sources, and in upholding the rights of elderly married couples to be cared for together in care homes.»

In overturning an earlier Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal decision, the Supreme Court reinstated $ 839,000 in damages that had been awarded at trial to Wanda Young, a Memorial University student who was wrongfully accused of child abuse after submitting an essay that included an unattributed textbook account of a female child abuse victim who went on to become an abuser.

As a systems therapist, incest survivor, and recovering alcoholic, I've lived through several stages of our culture's attempt to come to terms with child sexual abuse — as a victim in the silent 1950s; as a therapy client in the oblivious 1960s and 1970s; and as a psychotherapist in the 1980s and 1990s, when once - dismissed accounts of abuse filled my therapy practice (and my television screen) only to be partly discredited within the decade during another swing of the cultural pendulum.