Sentences with phrase «short of child abuse»

It is a tragedy and nothing short of child abuse that is usually perpetrated by a parent with some sort of personality disorder.

Parental alienation continues to be a controversial issue that must be presented as nothing short of child abuse that can have devastating consequences on children, both in the short - term, as well as for the rest of their lives.

This process of manipulating children to reject a parent is nothing short of child abuse and have been demonstrated in research that it is at times worse than physical or sexual abuse.

Failing to Solve the Climate Change Problem Ultimately Amounts to Child Abuse Of late, professionals in psychiatry, medicine, and the social sciences are beginning to publicly assert in no uncertain terms that a chronic failure by the adults in our society to remove or substantially reduce the existential threat of climate change amounts to nothing short of child abuse.

The truth is Connecticut's public school students have become guinea pigs for the Corporate Education Reform Industry and implementing a test that is designed to ensure failure for the vast majority of our children is nothing short of child abuse.

«Sit and Stare» policies are nothing short of child abuse since they will lead to anxiety and the very real likelihood of resentment on the part of the children who are taking the test.

While some of these efforts and strategies may be legal, others push the boundaries to the point that any reasonable parent would call them nothing short of child abuse.

Labelling a child this way is nothing short of child abuse, let alone subjecting them to brain - damaging drugs on the basis of this diagnosis.

I know it's a harsh question, but religion is dangerous by nature and this indoctrination is nothing short of child abuse.

Not exact matches

Yes, I know that unfortunately child abuse happens... but for the church to have deliberately permitted the abuse to go on and on and on is nothing short of criminal.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

Eight priests from the Diocese of Buffalo accused of sexually abusing children live within a short walk of area elementary and middle schools.

According to short clips of conversations between the two, this son thinks abducted and abused children is sad, and he wants to grow up to be just like his dad and go to Africa and fight bad guys.

The reasons for allowing an employee to take paid sick time include: employee's short term illness; time to deal with medical, legal or relocation issues related to domestic violence or child abuse; and to care for a family member when ill or in need of medical care.

In May researchers at McGill University reported that the gene responsible for creating cells» protein - building machinery is more frequently methylated in the hippocampus — the brain region responsible for short - term memory and spatial navigation — of depressed suicide victims who suffered child abuse than in the brains of nonsuicide victims who were not abused.

The summary consisted of several sentences describing the link between spanking and short - and long - term child behavior problems, including aggressive and delinquent acts, poor quality of parent - child relationships and an increased risk of child physical abuse.

Pelto explained that forcing children who have been opted out of the testing to remain in the testing room is nothing short of bullying and abuse because it creates unnecessary anxiety, embarrassment and a potential sense of humiliation, while fostering an environment of resentment as remaining students are forced to take the unfair tests while the students who have been opted out are forced to sit in the testing room for more than 8 hours.

However, the bond between a therapy dog and an abused child is nothing short of magical to observe, as the animal provides non-judgmental comfort and can ultimately help with the healing process for the child.

The court made relatively short work of dismissing an appeal by an allegedly abused «young person» («X»; her age now is not stated) who said that she had been abused as a child by the father in the current contact proceedings.

Brief Notes presents short reports of ongoing research into such areas as child hostages, the child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome, violence in teen dating relationships, sexually abused adolescent females living in a group home setting, and childhood sexual abuse among clinicians working with sex offenders

This course can be offered in either 2 or 4 hours and is designed for professionals interested in learning more about the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol or other drugs, the short and long term concerns of parental substance use and abuse, and recommendations for supporting children and families affected by this issue.

Achieving Permanence for Children in Relative Foster Care: Relative Adoptions and Subsidized Guardianships Boyer (2015) Court - Appointed Special Advocates for Children Examines how relative caregivers can mitigate the short - term and long - term consequences of neglect and abuse and reviews new developments and ongoing challenges to permanence and kinship care.

Physicians underestimated substantially the prevalence of intrafamilial violence, maternal psychosocial distress, and associated behavior problems in children compared with use of a questionnaire for this purpose.23 The use of a clinic questionnaire identified significantly more mothers with potential risk factors for poor parenting compared with review of medical records.24 Shorter versions of this questionnaire for evaluating parental depressive disorders, 25 substance abuse, 26 and parental history of physical abuse as a child27 compared favorably to the original measures in terms of accuracy.

Short of actual neglect and physical abuse, children can survive any family crisis without permanent damage - and can grow as human beings in the process - if they can sense some continuity and loving involvement on the part of their parents.»

CPC - CBT: Empowering Families Who Are at Risk for Physical Abuse is a short - term (16 - 20 sessions), strength - based therapy program for children ages 3 - 17 and their parents (or caregivers) in families where parents engage in a continuum of coercive parenting strategies.

«In short, the trial judge found that Many was not guilty of sexual abuse of the children, and that Teresa made it all up and planted the notion in the children's heads in order to alienate their father forever.»

In his short films Removed, Nathanael Matanick poignantly relays the tragic reality of child abuse in our country (watch Removed, parts one and two, here).

In fact, a recent meta - analysis of five decades of research showed that spanking a child results in short - term negative outcomes like aggression and defiance and long - term outcomes like substance abuse.

To many children are losing people who love them and who they love, it is nothing short of emotional abuse, please do something about this.

In short, the best interest of the child standard is inherently broad and adaptable, and, as such, is ripe for abuse.

A DV shelter can be the answer in the short - term aftermath of the abuse, as a temporary safe house for the woman and her children where all basic needs are met.