Sentences with phrase «abused by adults»

Most of the victim are abused by adults, the youth and by their peers.
Most consensual incestual relationships between siblings is the result of some form of childhood trauma, likely shared abuse by an adult through childhood, or severe repression and lack of socialization, and as such it is likely that they turned to one another for comfort and affection, which turned sexual as puberty approached.
Bullying by peers scars children's mental health over the long haul as much as — or more than — abuse by adults does, a new analysis of U.S. and British kids finds.
This means that his own journey can't end with his violence unto others, and moreover, that his serial sacrifices for the white child so abused by every adult in sight — save for him — make him less admirable than frightening, a specter of payback that extends far beyond his own experience or representative capacity.
Oftentimes, when children behave in an age - inappropriate, sexually precocious manner, parents will come to suspect that the child has been sexually abused by an adult — perhaps the other parent, or a person in whose care the other parent entrusted the child.

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When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?
Elder financial abuse or exploitation is defined as the unauthorized, illegal or inappropriate use of an aging adult's financial resources by a person in a position of trust.
One - quarter of New Hampshire adults believe that drug abuse is the most important problem facing the state, according to the most recent WMUR Granite State Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).
Victims of clergy sexual abuse, victims of any sexual abuse by any trusted adult, do need ready and generous listeners.
Indeed, according to the NSPCC, the vast majority of abuse of children and young people happens not by any particular kind of adult professional, but by peers (friends, boyfriends, etc.) and to a lesser degree family members (siblings, parents, etc.).
I have been taught this less by my feminist professional colleagues than by the students who have attended my classes on passes from hospitals or after therapy sessions, in which they are being treated for wounds inflicted by men (and sometimes women) who abused them as children or as adults.
Thus, rehab only serves as a message that the fellow adult brother will no longer tolerate the parental abuse by the addicted brother... however, the mother believes there is no abuse... the drugs somehow disappeared... it can not be her (addicted) son that has been trying to sell her belongings on ebay...
The use of supernaturalism to manipulate and control people is the world's oldest confidence scheme, it relies on the ritual abuse of children at their most impressionable stage by adults who have themselves been made childish for life by artifacts of the primitive mind.
Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult children.
Here is the definition of sexual abuse adopted by the bishops: «Sexual abuse includes contacts or interactions between a child and an adult when the child is being used as an object of sexual gratification for the adult.
A child disclosing abuse may be removed from the home, forced to live with strangers, may have to endure an uncomfortable medical examination, may have to speak with adults about uncomfortable sexual matters, and will often be ostracized by their families, and in their homes, schools and churches.
What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»
Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.
Disbelieved by her parents, Lea didn't mention the abuse again until she was an adult.
Eight months ago the sexual abuse of players by adults was a dark and widely ignored aspect of Canadian youth hockey.
Youth sports are creating serious social problems: rape by athletes, violence toward other players and non-athletes, coaches bending eligibility rules, adults setting terrible examples by physically and verbally abusing kids, coaches, officials and other adults.
A substantial body of research now indicates that high levels of involvement by fathers in two parent families are associated with a range of desirable outcomes in children and young people, including: better peer relationships; fewer behaviour problems; lower criminality and substance abuse; higher educational / occupational mobility, relative to that of parents; capacity for empathy; non-traditional attitudes to earning and childcare; more satisfying adult sexual partnerships; and higher self - esteem and life - satisfaction (for reviews see Flouri 2005; Pleck and Masciadrelli 2004).
Foster fathers — who have largely been ignored by service providers and researchers — may be of particular importance, given that many of the children in their care will not have enjoyed supportive and loving relationships with adult males, and may have been abused by them (Wilson et al, 2007).
The critical importance of a two - adult rule was highlighted by recent allegations by the sister of a wrestling team manager claiming that he told her that he had been abused by the coach, former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who she claimed traveled to tournaments with Mr. Hastert but no other adult, and went for long rides in the coach's sports car.
But he added that «some adults abuse (it) by intentionally submitting false information.»
A great way to begin the somatic healing process is by Clarity breathwork and this process is what truly helped me move through and out of my own birth traumas, even the trauma of childhood abuse and major adult stresses.
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study conducted in the 1990s by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention together with Kaiser Permanente asked adults about ten categories of trauma experienced in childhood: three categories of abuse, two of neglect, and five related to growing up in a «seriously dysfunctional household».
She serves children, adolescents, and adults with specialization in child abuse, domestic violence, juvenile justice, divorce / custody, and Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome.
Drawing on psychology, psychiatry, sports journalism and neuroscience, she argues that bullying done by adults — namely emotional abuse — does such significant harm it should join sexual and physical abuse in criminal code.
The definition of child sexual abuse does not include abuse of an adult by an adult (even if the victim is developmentally delayed), or other types of child maltreatment.
By definition, sexual abuse is sexual activity involving a child and an adult.
Dear Offended: I agree that siblings are capable of abuse and cruelty — but I think it's a judgment call whether an older sibling teasing a younger sibling amounts to abuse or is an irritation, which can be handled with adult help and by the sibling standing up to the elder.
Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37
Child abuse is the physical or psychological maltreatment of a child by an adult, often synonymous with the term child maltreatment or the term child abuse and neglect.
The Adult Protection component of the Erie County Department of Social Services provides assessments and then can provide a variety of specialized protective services to vulnerable adults, ages 18 and older whose condition or circumstances make them vulnerable to abuse, neglect, and exploitation by others.
The Christian Institute convinced many politicians with claims that primary school sex education classes «often contain graphic material that is highly unsuitable for classroom use» and that «some material is so explicit that if it were shown by an adult to a child in a non-school setting, it would be regarded by many as child abuse».
Those who run away can find themselves in risky situations, flattered by the attentions of sympathetic adults, and can become «highly vulnerable to the well - rehearsed grooming techniques of abusing adults,» the report said.
Among the provisions, the law would empower Child or Adult Protective Services to seek a court order to enter premises to investigate claims of abuse if access is denied by the homeowner; allow Child Protective Services to share information about prior abuse with Adult Protective Services; and make it a Class A misdemeanor to deny Child or Adult Protective Services access to an alleged victim for an interview.
«By addressing the needs of the abused adult, we hope to reduce the likelihood that their child will be abused in the future.
Senate Democrats made a last - ditch effort to get legislation to make it easier for survivors of sexual abuse to seek justice as adults into the budget by trying to attach it as a hostile amendment to one of the bills.
A lookback window is among the most controversial components of the Child Victims Act, which would make it easier for abuse survivors to seek justice as adults by extending the timeframes they can bring criminal and civil cases.
Frustrated at the lack of action by the Republican majority, Senate Democrats sought to attach a bill making it easier for adults who were sexually abused as children to bring lawsuits to another bill in hopes of forcing a vote on the issue.
None are believed to contain the one - year window sought by advocates that allows adults who were abused as kids but can no longer sue under current law to bring a civil case.
The rise in the abuse of opioids — powerfully addictive painkillers — is driven by adults.
Given the medical and socio - economic difficulties often faced by people with mental illness, and the lack of research into the other medical conditions they might suffer from, the authors set out to discover, using publicly available data, what proportion of US adults experience each combination of mental illness, substance abuse / dependence and chronic mental conditions.
Child abuse is the physical or psychological maltreatment of a child by an adult, often synonymous with the term child maltreatment or the term child abuse and neglect.
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Adolescents and adults are often unaware that teens experience dating violence Definition Domestic violence and emotional abuse are behaviors used by one person in a relationship to control the other.
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