Sentences with phrase «more cases of child abuse»

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Priests may... appear more likely to molest children because cases of abuse come to light in huge waves... Allen suggests a final reason we hear so much more about Catholic abuse than transgressions in other religions: [the Church's] sheer size... «When you consider the per capita data,» says Allen, «I don't think they have a larger incidence than other faiths.»

While there have been no formal studies to determine how many child molesters have coached youth teams, a computer - database search of recent newspaper stories reveals more than 30 cases just in the last 18 months of coaches in the U.S. who have been arrested or convicted of sexually abusing children engaged in nine sports from baseball to wrestling — and this despite the fact that child sex - abuse victims, for reasons ranging from shame and embarrassment to love or fear of their molesters, rarely report the crime.

In 1996, he helped pass Elisa's Law, which lifted some of the confidentiality restrictions surrounding child abuse cases to hold child welfare agencies more accountable.

But with bishops in other states turning to bankruptcy to protect their dioceses from expensive awards in abuse cases, the Catholic Conference of New York became an early line of defense when the Child Victims Act was first introduced more than a decade ago.

The study tested the accuracy of the expert panel based on 584 of the 2,166 cases that could be more definitively classified as abuse or accidental based on other information learned after the child's visit to the emergency department.

Newberger founded the hospital's child protection unit in 1970 and has testified in more than 600 child abuse cases since then, dozens of which, he says, were SBS cases.

The sexual abuse of children is one of the more sickening aspects of the society in which we live, and no one except the paedophile would wish to hinder the investigation of genuine cases.

In the case of two people who have a child together, abuse can look even more complicated.

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I am hoping to address more cases like this as they are highly rewarding; the reunification of a child back to his or her parent is gratifying, as wrongful abduction is a high level of child abuse.

Much of the ground he covers is covered in more detail, and from different angles, in Protocol and Good Practice Model: Disclosure of information in cases of alleged child abuse and linked criminal and care directions hearings of October 2013.

I am hoping to address more cases like this as they are highly rewarding; the reunifica - tion of a child back to his or her parent is gratifying, as wrongful abduction is a high level of child abuse.

One potential solution to reduce the number of child abuse and neglect cases is to simply give parents more money.

Experts know that cases of abuse or neglect that are substantiated by a child protective agency represent only a small fraction of children who are maltreated.122 That being the case, it would be far more useful to gain a better understanding of child maltreatment so that it can be prevented (and strategies to prevent it can be assessed) before it becomes necessary for the state to intervene.

Conclusions Although findings are at best mixed with respect to the effectiveness of home - visiting programs in preventing child neglect, evidence is mounting that these programs can positively alter parenting practices and, to a lesser extent, children's cognitive development.121 Given the many measurement problems associated with accurately tracking substantiated cases of abuse and neglect, what is needed is not more evaluations of CPS reports attempting to show reductions in child abuse and neglect, but rather the development of new measures by which researchers can make sensitive and accurate assessments of child maltreatment.

The movement is based on the belief that we must do more than simply respond to cases of abuse through prosecution and intervention — we need to provide programs and policies that focus on the child development process, engage communities and create conditions that allow parents to be the kinds of parents they want to be.

The campaign is based on the belief that we must do more than simply respond to cases of abuse through prosecution and intervention — we need to provide programs and policies that focus on the child development process, engage communities and create conditions that allow parents to be the kinds of parents they want to be.

It is through collaboration between custody evaluators, judges, and attorneys that a community of experts develops to more appropriately manage difficult issues in custody cases such as Parental Alienation, Child Abuse, and other forms of pathology that directly impact the developmental well being of children.

With government revenue decreasing and the number of child abuse cases on the rise, volunteer support has never been more critical.

However, contrary to what Richard Gardner and the Father's Rights movement claims, Congress's recent hearings found that «the documented rate of any child abuse allegations in custody cases is approximately 2 percent, and there is no evidence that false accusations are more common in the context of custody litigation.»

Children whose parents participated in home visiting programs are born with fewer instances of low birthweight, are more likely to be breastfed by their mothers, and experience fewer cases of child injuries, child abuse, neglect, and maltreatment.