Sentences with phrase «than physical abuse»

The law has been lauded by domestic violence advocates who say psychological abuse can have a more lasting impact than physical abuse, the Guardian reports.

Abuse by sedation is far easier to hide than physical abuse, and just as deadly.

I think even worse than the physical abuse she suffered was the fact that her kidnapping caused her to lose custody of her son.

Emotional abuse can be as dangerous, and in some cases, even more dangerous than physical abuse.

In many ways, emotional abuse can be worse than physical abuse, since it can destroy your sense of self - worth.

Emotional Abuse: Often harder to identify than physical abuse, emotional abuse is no less an irreparable problem.

The study indicated that while physical abuse is a significant contributor to violent behavior, physical neglect alone is an even stronger predictor of male adolescent violence than physical abuse, or even physical abuse and neglect combined.

Emotional abuse, which includes behaviors such as ridicule, intimidation, rejection, and humiliation, is much more common than physical abuse and neglect.

Plus, as insidious as it is, emotional abuse is in many ways more harmful than physical abuse.

When children are neglected, especially in infancy, their nervous systems experience it as a serious threat to their well - being; indeed, researchers have found that neglect can do more long - term harm to a child than physical abuse.

That said, verbal abuse isn't «better» than physical abuse; sometimes, it can be worse.

Not exact matches

«Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, unwittingly reveals what draws the new atheists towards the Catholic - abuse story:... «Odious as the physical abuse of children by priests undoubtedly is, I suspect that it may do them less lasting damage than the mental abuse of bringing them up Catholic in the first place», [http://richarddawkins.net/articles/118?page=2].

Additionally, deep NFL playoff runs expose players to even more physical abuse than the already taxing 16 - game regular season.

If you wish to remove the category of abuse from anything other than the physical realm, that is all well and good.

Rather than addressing the real reasons women don't breastfeed - reasons that range from histories of sexual abuse and body image issues to economic and physical constraints - the campaign «portrays anything short of exclusive breastfeeding... as a sign of moral corruption and bad character....

Research now shows that humans are such intensely social creatures that social ostracism lights up physical pain pathways in the brain; it can be more damaging than even physical abuse.

Special Needs - Conditions that make some children harder to place than other children include: physical, mental, and emotional disabilities, age, race (minorities), sibling groups, and history of physical or sexual abuse.

Two, requiring by law that people live with intense conflict, violence, abuse... compromises mental and physical health, as well as freedom, in such a way that the solution may be worse than the problem.

Marriage without sex and physical affection is nothing more than a contractually - binding friendship that absent of an equal share of housework and income is a lopsided agreement, always favoring the party who has backed out of the sexual and physical affection aspect of the relationship (barring reasons such as a failure to maintain physical appearance, substance abuse, or unwarranted infidelity).

Per their website, childhood abuse comes in forms more than just physical, which is why there are key behavioral responses to look out for as well.

Women who reported a history of abuse were more likely to report the following symptoms: chronic pelvic pain, frequent feelings of fatigue, obesity, severe PMS, irritable bowel syndrome, frequent headaches, trouble sleeping, frequent vaginal infections, and overall less satisfaction with their physical health than their non-abused counterparts.

Many of the ads stress that dating abuse is more than physical violence.

James» announcement comes just more than a week after former AG Eric Schneiderman resigned from office when four women accused him of physical and emotional abuse in a New Yorker article.

Schneiderman resigned as State Attorney General late Monday night, May 7 just hours after he was accused of committing physical abuse while in romantic relationships by four women in a New Yorker story published less than three hours earlier.

Despite the fact that CACs serve many more victims of child sexual abuse than they do victims of child physical abuse (CPA), federal data show that physical abuse is far more common, potentially indicating that CACs without a specialized response to physical abuse may be unequipped to serve a large population of child victims of abuse within their jurisdictions.

«With less than three coercive controls on average per police authority, more needs to be done so that people can involve the police at an early stage before coercion turns into physical abuse.»

According to the nation's top experts, children are actually safer from physical and sexual abuse than they have been for decades

Parent perspectives reflect the trend, too, with more than two - thirds of parents polled saying traditional health topics should definitely be covered at their child's grade level, including physical activity, drug and alcohol abuse, healthy eating and sex education and pregnancy prevention.

«Exposure to psychological domestic abuse most damaging to children's wellbeing: New research shows that exposure to psychological abuse between parents is more damaging to children's wellbeing in the long term than physical domestic violence.»

However, «although people assume physical abuse is more harmful than other types of abuse, we found that they are associated with similar consequences,» says David Vachon, a McGill professor in the Department of Psychology and the study's first author.

Psychological maltreatment that occurred alongside physical or sexual abuse was associated with significantly more severe and far - ranging negative outcomes than when children were sexually and physically abused and not psychologically abused, the study found.

Using a sample of more than 6,000 adults from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, the researchers examined whether adult self - reported social support decreased mortality risk associated with self - reported exposure to three types of childhood abuse: severe physical abuse, modest physical abuse and emotional abuse.

They found that adults with bipolar disorder were 2.63 times more likely to have been victims of emotional, physical or sexual abuse as children than adults in the general population.

Women that suffered physical abuse while pregnant as well as women who had emotional, spouse or money related stress were more inclined than other women to have reported to be severely depressed.

When the abuser finds that he / she is not achieving a sufficient level of control (or whatever it is they are seeking, but most often it is control) through verbal and mental abuse, they will more than likely turn to physical violence to achieve it.

But judging by this year's audience reactions to the sold - out showings of both Martin McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and Dee Rees» «Mudbound,» maybe sentiment concerning matters involving the verbal and physical abuse of women, hate crimes and violence directed at those of different races or creeds and the rise of white supremacy has affected more than just those who voted against the GOP candidate.

Tasked with embodying a woman who is barely that, a girl stolen away from the world before she can reach full maturity and forced to endure years of psychological torture, physical and sexual abuse resulting in a son she loves and must protect despite his existence as a constant reminder of her captor, Larson must do more than her fair share of heavy lifting.

Neglect is a more common form of abuse than physical or sexual abuse, but it gets less attention and fewer services than either.

Indeed, a study by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network found that LGBTQ + students were significantly less likely to experience verbal or physical harassment or physical abuse in private schools than in public schools.

In 1990, state child - protection agencies received more than 2.5 milion reports of physical and sexual abuse, neglect, and emotional maltreatment — 589,000 more than they had five years earlier, according to an annual survey conducted by the National Committee for the Prevention of Child abuse and released here last week.

For fixed - period exclusions more than twice as many were related to physical assualt on pupils (54,370) than adults (20,770), but when it came to verbal abuse / threatening behaviour, almost four times as many exclusions related to adults (52,710) compared with other pupils (12,570).

This dual status can make these youth more vulnerable to verbal and physical abuse at school than either giftedness or gender / sexual minority status would on its own (Manzella, 2012).

PAWS view is that these unwanted animals as a last alternative, deserve a dignified, painless death rather than suffer from such cruelties as starvation, untreated / terminal disease and trauma stemming from physical abuse; outcomes commonly associated with an unwanted and uncared for existence.

Following their solo exhibition of «Z,» an in - depth exploration of gender ambiguity at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, Rowan Renee will mount a recent series of photographs which puts a microscope on the physical and psychological abuses from incest suffered at the hands of their father, a convicted pedophile who died in prison a little more than five years ago.

Image credit: CBC Laughs David Suzuki is more used to winning prizes than receiving physical abuse.

In long - term care facilites, elder mistreatment involves physical abuse more often than any other form of wrongdoing.

The IOG report revealed there were more than 130 cases wherein emergency room records showed possible abuse — physical abuse, sexual abuse or neglect.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary.

The incidence of physical and sexual abuse against both men and women with disabilities is significantly greater than in the general population due to their vulnerability and dependency upon their custodians and care providers.

Hurtful words directed at a child, for example, may have emotional or psychological effects that can harm a child as seriously — or even more seriously — than some incidences of physical or sexual abuse.