Sentences with phrase «of parental abuse»

The term has been used to apply to the major categories of parental abuse: physical, sexual, and emotional.

My expertise in the attachment system comes from both my background in early childhood mental health, which is the period of active formative processes in the attachment system (although we use the patterns of the attachment system throughout our lives), and from also applying this attachment - related information directly with children in the foster care system who were the victims of parental abuse and neglect that created a variety of severe distortions with their attachment system.

Auld LJ did not concur with the submissions of Mrs Lawrence that the Court of Appeal should try to develop the common law incrementally and in an evolutionary way by recognising such a duty of care to not only children but parents too «by those publicly responsible for the safety and well - being of children when investigating and / or taking steps to avert the risk of parental abuse», and that the House of Lords majority judgment in East Berkshire was «too narrowly based».

In extreme cases — if there is evidence of parental abuse, for example, or if one parent has become seriously injured or ill — the court may expedite their order for a modification.

There is no explicit reason for Joe's rationale in choosing this martyr - like existence; disassociated images of military patrols, dead bodies and self - asphyxiations in the face of parental abuse suggest atonement for a lifetime of personal sins.

Accommodation, then, may actually be the dominant response to both types of parental abuse.

If you are the target of parental abuse, you're probably living in fear every day of what your teen will do next, always waiting for what will set off a volcanic eruption.

Not exact matches

I meet a few of the teens who are survivors of homelessness, child abuse and parental abandonment.

The illegitimate daughter of a Mississippi sharecropper, she overcame poverty, parental neglect, sexual abuse and racism to become one of the richest and most powerful women in the entertainment industry.

Officious social engineers of both the right and the left abuse the public schools to promote parochial agendas, whether by sanctioning the recitation of prayers over the school loudspeaker or by the distribution of contraceptives despite parental objections, thereby undermining parental authority and impairing the ability of parents to form their own family values.

Fatherless children have rates of incarceration, criminal activity, possession of firearms, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, incompletion of school, and overall parental neglect and maltreatment alarmingly higher than their two - parent counterparts.

Perhaps the most common use of the language of parental rights is to protect the possessive claims of those whose history of abuse or neglect as parents has largely undermined their claim to the title.

Later he questioned them and learned that welfare checks, child abuse and criminal parental negligence were, among some of their acquaintances, a familiar way of life.

But while it is true that behaviors like neglect and abuse can exert a disturbingly powerful influence on children, it is also true that the effect of some detrimental parental behaviors can be diminished or even reversed if those behaviors change.

The preservation of the family secure base, proving there are no extremes in parental abuse, drugs, or alcohol, set a great example to the children and continues to provide in their primary relationships, attachment figures and environments.

By improving infant sleep and reducing crying, Dr. Karp's hope is to improve parent confidence and bonding to their child and to reduce the serious health sequelae of parental exhaustion and stress, including postpartum depression, child abuse, childhood obesity, infant sleep death, etc..

Some experts believe that the majority of attachment problems in children are caused by parental ignorance about child development rather than abuse.

Research shows that parents who participate in Parenting Journey improve parental skills, which are known to promote family well - being and to reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect.

Tough presents striking research from neuroendocrinology and other fields revealing that childhood psychological traumas — from physical and sexual abuse to physical and emotional neglect, divorce, parental incarceration, and addiction, things found more often (though by no means exclusively) in impoverished families — overwhelm developing bodies» and minds» ability to manage the stress of events, resulting in «all kinds of serious and long - lasting negative effects, physical, psychological, and neurological.»

There's certainly nothing quite like a visit from someone who wants to accuse you of child abuse vis your kid's lunchbox to «ratify» parental responsibility....

What child can escape unharmed when caught in the middle of highly conflicted charges and counter-charges of parental unfitness or abuse; being forced to choose sides and hide their love for the other parent; or understand the complex legal nature of the court system.

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The overall emphasis of this seminar is to provide children with the opportunity to grow in a home environment without being caught in the middle of their parents» hostility by eliminating the parental behaviors that cause divorce abuse.

A court in the District of Columbia assumes that joint custody is in the best interests of the child unless there's a history of child abuse, neglect, parental kidnapping or family violence.

In contrast, children may experience chronic mismatch in the face of such things as parental mental illness, substance abuse or other adverse experiences.

When parental attachments don't form properly (as a result of abuse, neglect or harmful parenting), the child is less likely to develop a strong sense of independence.

Fathers are cited more than mothers in issues such as psychological maladjustment, substance abuse, depression and behavioral problems, according to research done by Ronald Rohner, director of the Center for the Study of Parental Acceptance and Rejection in the School of Family Studies at the University of Connecticut, and his colleague Robert Veneziano.

An evaluation of Hawaii's Healthy Start program found no differences between experimental and control groups in maternal life course (attainment of educational and life goals), substance abuse, partner violence, depressive symptoms, the home as a learning environment, parent - child interaction, parental stress, and child developmental and health measures.25 However, program participation was associated with a reduction in the number of child abuse cases.

The interpersonal and psychological functioning of women who experienced childhood physical abuse, incest, and parental alcoholism.

Additionally, a study published in 2016 in Psychiatric Times noted that the prevalence of suicide attempts was significantly higher in adults who experienced trauma, such as physical abuse, sexual abuse and parental domestic violence, as a child.

ACEs include all types of abuse and neglect, parental mental illness, substance use, divorce, incarceration, and domestic violence.

While it is absolutely true that ongoing stress is bad for a baby's brain, the stress that is shown to cause developmental problems is the chronic stress suffered by babies who are abused or neglected, or void of any parental figure in their life (such as babies born in orphanages in China).

In cases of adoption from foster care, will the DOH contact birth parents whose parental rights were terminated due to abuse or neglect, requiring the adoptee to get «permission» from his or her abusers even if the adoptee knows their names?

Some situations where a parenting class might be mandated can be in the case of child custody proceedings, visitation proceedings, divorce, or legal separation involving children, any other parental proceedings, or in cases where there is alleged or actual domestic abuse.

Answers to frequently asked questions about parental visitation rights, including the legal meaning of «reasonable;» how to prevent child abuse during a visitation; grandparents» visitation rights; and more.

Sadly, for this group of homeless people, problems of anti-social behaviour could be traced back through a lifetime of exclusion, characterised by traumatic childhood experiences, including parental addiction, bereavement, going into local authority care, neglect and physical and sexual abuse.

Adversity is commonly defined as anything children perceive as a threat to their physical safety or that jeopardizes their family or social structure, including emotional, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, bullying by peers, violence at home, parental divorce, separation or death, parental substance abuse, living in a neighborhood with high crime rates, homelessness, discrimination, poverty and the loss of a relative or another loved one.

The study notes its most important limitation is that although researchers accounted for parental socioeconomic status, they could not adjust for other mitigating factors such as parental criminal histories or experiences of abuse by those in the study group.

«Even after accounting for age, race, sex and other early adversities such as parental addictions, childhood physical abuse was still associated with a six-fold increase in the odds of dyslexia» says co-author Esme Fuller - Thomson, professor and Sandra Rotman Endowed Chair at University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

«When we focused on adults with arthritis, we found that those who had experienced chronic parental domestic violence or sexual abuse during their childhood, had more than three times the odds of suicide attempts compared to adults with arthritis who had not experienced these childhood adversities.

«Arthritis linked to suicide attempts: History of childhood adversities such as exposure to parental domestic violence and sexual abuse strongly associated with suicide attempts among those with arthritis.»

The participants self - reported psychosocial stressors including child abuse, parental divorce, death of a parent, or having a parent suffering from depression or anxiety disorder.

Child abuse, parental divorce and parental death, where shown to be associated with higher rates of adult insomnia.

Parental bereavement in childhood has been robustly linked to impaired academic performance, higher rates of teenage pregnancy and drug and alcohol abuse, as well as a range of mental health disorders as adults.

The Michigan Liquor Control Commission (MLCC) last week effectively prohibited the sale of all alcoholic energy drinks after considering several studies regarding such beverages as well as concerns voiced by substance abuse prevention and parental groups, the general public, and an ongoing U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation.

Conditions such as economic strife, health problems, drug abuse, pollution, and lack of parental care experienced during early life can have a permanent effect on an individual's fitness, increasing the risk for and rate of neuropsychiatric disorders in these individuals when they become adults.

Teens who have fewer than three family dinners a week are 3.5 times more likely to have abused prescription drugs and to have used illegal drugs other than marijuana, three times more likely to have used marijuana, more than 2.5 times more likely to have smoked cigarettes, and 1.5 times more likely to have tried alcohol, according to the CASA report «While substance abuse can strike any family, regardless of ethnicity, affluence, age, or gender, the parental engagement fostered at the dinner table can be a simple, effective tool to help prevent [it],» says Elizabeth Planet, one of the report's researchers, and the centers vice president and director of special projects.

Abuse, belittlement, insults, neglect, loss of loved ones, parental acrimony... the traumas children weather unfortunately become a lifelong «operating system» that has profound influences on immunological and neurological health.

My upbringing presented a number of challenges around parental instability, substance abuse, and emotional roller coasters.

I'm not sure if the upset stomach was because I was already a tad woozy from the flu, but the splitting headache was no doubt caused by this production which stars absolutely no one and elicits no laughs whatsoever, unless one finds things like projectile vomiting, urinating on people, being drunk and stoned to the point of annoyance, being spanked with a cricket bat, automobile accidents, people being thrown from balconies and beaten senseless, animal abuse, making fun of the mentally ill, parental violence and, probably worst of all, a throbbing and brain tumor - inducing rap soundtrack that pulsates ceaselessly throughout this unmitigated disaster, fun.