Sentences with phrase «on child victims»

42 U.S. Code § 13001b (a) Establishment of regional children's advocacy program The Administrator, in coordination with the Director and with the Director of the Office of Victims of Crime, shall establish a children's advocacy program to --(1) focus attention on child victims by assisting communities in developing child - focused, community - oriented, facility - based programs designed to improve the resources available to children and families; (2) provide support for nonoffending family members; (2) Grant recipients A grant recipient under this section shall --(A) assist communities --(i) in developing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary response to child abuse that is designed to meet the needs of child victims and their families; (iii) in preventing or reducing trauma to children caused by multiple contacts with community professionals; (iv) in providing families with needed services and assisting them in regaining maximum functioning; Where: — «families» is always defined as «nonoffending» in the system and making the system «all powerful» and parents and children in to lifetime «victims» to be exploited.
Some experts use the term «parental alienation» to describe the potential negative impact on child victims.
«The Assembly failed to take a vote on the Child Victims Act.
Dennis Poust, spokesman for the state Catholic Conference, declined to comment Friday on the Child Victims Act.
«This year, we have an opportunity to see finally where the Republican Senate stands on the Child Victims Act,» said Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat from Manhattan.
Abuse advocates say the recent spate of high - profie sexual harassment scandals should spur action on the Child Victims Act in New York.
On the day the Legislature returned after its two - week mid-winter break, a group created by former speed skater and child sex abuse survivor Bridie Farrell paid for at least three trucks parked outside the state Capitol with messages aimed at lawmakers holding out on the Child Victims Act.
The failure to act on the Child Victims Act for the 11th straight year is a failure that stains the entire legislative session,» Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said in a statement.
Despite that, the agency said it takes no position on the Child Victims Act.
«The failure to act on the Child Victims Act for the 11th straight year is a failure that stains the entire legislative session.»
Flanagan and DeFrancisco blocked Senate colleagues from voting on the Child Victims Act even though the bill had the votes to pass the Senate.
Actress Julianne Moore targeted Senate Majority Leader John Flannagan on Twitter for «protecting» child predators by holding up a vote on the Child Victims Act.
At the same time, Cuomo was similarly pessimistic an agreement could be reached on the Child Victims Act, which would extend the statute of limitations for the survivors of child sexual abuse and make it easier for them to file lawsuits.
Republicans in the state Senate are being urged to hold a hearing on the Child Victims Act, which passed the Democratic - controlled Assembly earlier this week.
Among «the deleterious effects of parental child abduction on the child victim» are «depression, loss of community, loss of stability, security and trust, excessive fearfulness, loneliness, anger, helplessness, disruption in identity formation and fear of abandonment.»

Not exact matches

Our Government will focus on protecting the most vulnerable of all victims, our children.
Those hawking such treatments depend on frightening parents into believing that their child has fallen victim to a terrifying new condition.
Dr Billings, who was deputy leader of Sheffield City Council in the 1980s, said: «My first priority will be to keep the police focussed on doing everything to ensure that all instances of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham are fully investigated with perpetrators brought to justice, officials held to account and victims fully supported.
Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...
It was precisely because of their deeply cherished faith that women were compelled to organize for the vote, for women to be declared persons under the law, for the rights of workers, for women to wear pants, for temperance even (because the victims of drunkenness were usually women and children), and so on.
The victim's aunt, Cynthia Stoltzmann, 44, and grandmother, Judith Deal, 62, were charged with child abuse and kidnapping after reportedly admitting to locking the child in the box on previous occasions.
Monsignor William Lynn was convicted of one count of child endangerment on Friday, and victims groups hope that conviction will pave the way for prosecutors across the country to go after church officials — and not just accused priests — in confronting sex abuse.
Monsignor William Lynn was convicted of one count of child endangerment on Friday, and victims groups hope that conviction will pave the way for prosecutors across the country to go after church officials - and not just accused priests - in confronting sex abuse.
Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22
To the folks who are vehemently denying this person was a Christian, I would urge you to consider this: If a person with a muslim name commits an act of terrorism, he is immediately labelled an «Islamic» terrorist, no questions asked, even though the Quran clearly states that a person who kills an innocent is like he / she has murdered then whole of humanity (the Quran mentions this in reference to murder of ANY innocent person, irrespective of the victims belief): To quote from the Quran: «On that account We ordained for the Children of Isra`il that if any one slew a person — unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land — it would be as if he slew the whole humanity: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the whole humanity.
A video taken inside a small Texas church on the day a gunman brought carnage to a Sunday service shows some of the victims, including children, being shot in the...
«This Bill not only provides support for victims, as evidenced by the creation of independent guardians for trafficked children and the statutory duty it places on the Department of Health to provide much needed assistance to women wishing to leave prostitution, it also tackles one of the root causes of trafficking, namely paying for sex.
This is terrible... can't believe that poor child (well now he's on his twenties) was abused so many times by three different monsters... My prayers to all of the victims of these monsters.
As we learned during our series on abuse in the church, cases of fabricated allegations of child abuse are quite rare, so when this many consistent counts are leveled against an organization, we should be wary of jumping to the defense of the accused and treating the alleged victims as liars.
They speak of church cultures that treated women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a woman's worth to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned women's ability to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership of men, that blamed victims of sexual abuse for inviting the abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed women who did not «joyfully submit» to their husband and find contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims of abuse by telling women and children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus damage the reputation of Christ.
Like scared children on a playground, when they witness an act of bullying, they chose not to defend the victim, but to align themselves with the bully to avoid any potential retribution...
As I have mentioned in several previous posts on this supposed «doomsday prophecy», the real victims are the children of this misguided individuals.
god lets children get molested and lets people die of cancer and lets people like me roam the earth and say silly things on a cnn forum and lets children get cancer and lets children with cancer get ra.ped and lets cancer stricken ra.pe victim children receive 3rd degree burns on 85 % of their body and lets me say things like this.
For her, hell was her life on earth as a victim or severe and unimaginable child abuse that nobody was going to remove her from.
VanHagar wrote on Wdenesday, May 2, 2012 at 7:47 pm, stating, «It was in faith in God that gave us the Salvation Army, Abused Children «s Fund, Freedom 424 (serving victims of s.ex trafficking), Bright Hope International (working with the poor), Children «s Christian Lifeline Hunger and Medical Relief, Christian World Relief, Five Talents - USA, Inc., Habitat for Humanity International, Living Water International (providing clean water), etc. etc. and hundreds (if not thousands) of other faith - based charities help the poor and disenfranchised.
Why doesn't the church celebrate Mother Teresa's birthday by donating $ $ $ $ in her honor on her birthday to some worthy childrens» charity and certainly there is ample need of money for therapy for children who have been victims of pedophile priests.
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.
I watch newscasts about homeless people here and abroad, about war torn countries where people are slaughtered or sold into slavery, about children who are born with aids and die before they have a chance to live, about victims of earthquakes in China, orphanages, starving children, disease, and the list goes on and on and on.
I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.
She had years of knowledge and experience on the subject, and she had needed it all, especially with Alex. Her latest problem child had been questioned more than once about a string of rapes in New York City, a brutal series of crimes where the perpetrator gained the confidence of his targets — and intimidated them — by claiming he was a middleweight contender, then employed drugs to subdue his victims and had his way.
Hitting out of anger, i.e. not in a premeditated way, is loss of control on the part of the parent and not the child's fault, yet they become the victim of it.
Even though these arguments are portrayed as absolute, scientific fact, these arguments are better understood as a rhetorical strategy to persuade mothers of the health threats to their children (c.f., Best's (1990) work on the construction of the child - victim).
Men's Advice Line (check out their website here) offers unhurried emotional and practical support to male victims of domestic violence and can point you towards a wide range of further assistance on child contact, parenting, housing, mental health and housing, among other issues.
Because most concussion victims score 14 or 15 on the GCS, its primary utility is in ruling out more serious brain injuries.4 Thus,» [w] hile highly useful in the sphere of emergency response to trauma, the Glasgow Coma Scale should not be used to assess the significance of a concussion,» writes William P. Meehan, III, MD, MomsTeam concussion medicine expert emeritus and former Director of the Sports Concussion Clinic in the Division of Sports Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, in his 2011 book, Kids, Sports, and Concussion.1
The Playgroup Altercation, Part 2: When Your Child Is the Victim Judy Arnall, Canadian author of Discipline without Distress, returns with her second part in the two - part series on handling the playgroup altercation — this time, your child is the victim and the other parent isn't sympathChild Is the Victim Judy Arnall, Canadian author of Discipline without Distress, returns with her second part in the two - part series on handling the playgroup altercation — this time, your child is the victim and the other parent isn't sympatVictim Judy Arnall, Canadian author of Discipline without Distress, returns with her second part in the two - part series on handling the playgroup altercation — this time, your child is the victim and the other parent isn't sympathchild is the victim and the other parent isn't sympatvictim and the other parent isn't sympathetic.
Because your child knows what it feels like to be a victim, stress that his bullying also inflicted pain on another person.
Traumatic events which are caused by a close family member and result in physical harm or a major disruption in a child's life circumstances will have a worse effect on the victim than trauma inflicted by a stranger or non-human event.
Every child deserves to be protected, whether from adult predators or child bullies, and the same goes for children of celebrities who are often the victims of harassment from photographers looking to make big bucks on some photos of famous families.
Enlist the help of professionals: Meeting on your own with parents of the kids who have been the victims of your child's bullying could worsen the situation, Borba said.
With constant access to online chatting, email and connecting on social media, there is a possibility that your child may become a victim of cyber bullying and other online dangers.
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