... risk that the child will be abused or neglected The court shall consider the circumstances surrounding the abuse or neglect of the sibling, the age and gender of each child, the nature of the abuse ... supervision of a child, or by any household or family member, under circumstancesthat indicate that the child s health or welfare is harmed or at substantial risk of being harmed • Sexual abuseof a child, ... behavior.” Parental Substance Abuse Parental substance abuse is an element of the definition ofchildabuse or neglect in some States.11 Circumstancesthat are considered abuse or neglect in some...
... else’s children Child- abuse is the result, often worse than what the parents can mete out People living in the country are less prone to child- abuse simply because they not have the stress of city-living ... over to child- minders This handling over of responsibility does not solve the problem All too often the minders are suffering the same difficulties of making a living and take on the children ... the nerves of the parents Further demands from the children at home might cause a nervous reaction on the part of the parents Some parents, in order to escape from the demands of the children,...
... and the sexual abuseof children, and I just mentioned casually that as a social worker I had come across a lot [of sexual abuse] , and what I noticed is that the abuser of children, or the ... the issue ofchild sexual abuse, distributing a flier that included a typical analysis ofchild abuse: One out of every four women in the United States experiences some form of sexual abuse before ... from rape of adult women (thus the note about the lack of coverage of the issue), and as connected to rape (thus the inclusion of rape of minors with thatof adult women) Child sexual abuse, in...
... of all Children Looked After and 28% of other Children in Need ♦ About 12% of the Children in Need population are (6) _disabled, and they received (7) _ of the gross ... _ Children in Need in a typical week • 92% of Children Looked After and 54% of other Children in Need receive a service or have money spent on their behalf in a typical week (either in terms of ... PARENTING DISABILITY ABUSE OR NEGLECT FAMILY IN ACUTE STRESS PARENTAL ILLNESS/DISABILITY LOW INCOME FAMILY DYSFUNCTION _ Children in need as a result of, or at risk of, abuse or neglect...
... Parliament decided that all children above the age of 1.5 years would be offered some kind of public child care not later than the fall of 1991 This was a political statement meaning thatchild care ... part of the state school system This implies that the municipalities have been responsible for offering children a place in the pre-school class starting with the autumn term of the year of the child s ... daughter of the liberal newspaperman Lars Johan Hierta The aim was similar to thatof the child- crib: to give care but also to foster the growth and development of the children The school children...
... organization of significant findings of positive effects of father’s involvement on dimensions ofchild development is offered in Figure - 26 – Father’s Involvement as a Determinant ofChild Health ... recollection of father -child conflict, or global ratings of father or child ‘satisfaction’ with the father -child relationship Improving measures of father involvement and the use of these measures ... this review of research are summarized in Table It should be noted that there is also a body of research that has failed to show any relationship of father’s involvement to indicators ofchild or...
... including members independent of the organisation and an independent expert with experience of out of school child care provision for children over the age of seven, to approve child care providers; ... evidence of status and commitment to equality of opportunity Description of the system Details of the training of independent quality assessors Membership of the awarding panel Details of any charges ... with children; (3) offer a planned programme of supervised activities that reflect the developmental needs of the children being cared for; (4) operate an equal opportunities policy for parents, children...
... and that the binding of ISP and Qcr10p is subsequent to thatof Bcs1p Previous studies have suggested that the insertion of ISP into the bc1 complex would replace the bound Bcs1p on the basis of ... oligomeric forms of bc1 assembly factors [12,29,32,41] Of course, the possibility that other protein components of the respiratory chain, such as subunits of the cytochrome c oxidase, or of the TIM23 ... the assembly of the bc1 complex is also unknown Furthermore, as in the case of the biogenesis of other multi-subunit complexes of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, the assistance of specific...
... population (Ministry of Health, 2005).6 A child whose height-for-age z-score wave of CHNS data It is well documented that the nutritional status in early childhood and preschool period is of great importance ... also higher than thatof rural children (7% vs 4%) The descriptive results thus suggest that rural children in China had lower health and nutritional status Table indicates that the urban parents ... regional variations, the average heights of school-age children increased significantly from 1979 to 1995 Recent evidence also suggests that the prevalence ofchild malnutrition declined substantially...
... usual source of health care of household, medical assistance at delivery, health card (vaccination) of the child and immunization coverage of children The unit of analyses for utilization of usual ... The dimension of health includes child health and the health of women in the age group 15-49 Child health is measured by a set of health care variables (the vaccination coverage of children, the ... by a set of economic proxies of the household In deriving the estimate of multidimensional poverty, the unit of analysis is the household, whereas the child is the unit of analysis for child health...
... of less than 60% of the median for that country) Almost always, it is the national median that is used as the basis for the measurement of relative poverty But from the point of view of the child ... way of looking at children's material well-being is to ask whether, in the words of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the child s circumstances are such as to allow ‘the development of ... indicator ofchild health and reflects a basic provision of the Convention on the Rights of the Child which calls on all countries ‘to ensure the child s enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of...
... sexual abuse Reported incidence ofchild sexual abuse Actual prevalence ofchild sexual abuse Children’s reporting of sexual abuse Definition of sexual abuse Evidence ofabuse Interviewing strategies ... Other forms ofchildabuse Community attitudes to other forms ofchildabuse The puzzle of reported incidence Patterns in reported incidence of other forms ofchildabuse Patterns ofabuse in the ... understanding ofchildabuse in the context of parental separation The relationship between child abuse, parental separation and divorce The history of understanding ofchildabuse in the context of parental...
... influence of social trends on drug abuse In addition to magnitudes of consumption, some general and very tentative assessments of the characteristics of abusers are possible Illicit drug abuse is ... workforce that is impaired by large-scale drug abuse The effect of drugs on productivity is a function of the type and quantities of drugs consumed, as well as of the performance requirements of the ... for drug abuse, creating something of a vicious circle D Trade and balance of payments The effects of the illicit drug industry on both the balance of trade and the balance of payments of a producer...
... of Health we visited: the Division of Reproductive Health; the Departments of Nutrition, Child Health, Maternal Health, and Prevention of Maternal to Child Transmission of HIV, Organisation of ... Provision of treatments Midwife to population ratio Number of long-life insecticide treated bed-nets Number of doses of Vitamin A Number of doses of Measles Vaccines Number of doses of paediatric ... funding Official development assistance for child health Infrastructure Per Capita spending on child health Number of centres for nutritional rehabilitation Number of functional health posts % of...
... patterns ofabuse -Physical abuse -Sexual abuse -Intentional drugging -Medical neglect -Nutritional deprivation -Emotional abuseChildAbuse • In the United States, – 2% of children reported to be abused ... ChildAbuse • The physical, sexual, or mental injury, exploitation or negligent treatment of a child under the age of 18 years, by a person responsible for the child s welfare ... 18 years ChildAbuse • The Abuser – – – – Parents (father more often than mother) Other caregivers (boyfriends, babysitters) Physically or emotionally exhausted Alcohol or other drugs often involved...
... the quality of the GP that the mother of the child is registered with at the child s birth, after controlling for a large set of family and household characteristics that may affect child health ... some measures of the accessibility of hospital care They find that single equation models that not control for endogeneity of supply yield insignificant estimates of the impact of GP supply on ... family income of the child and the quality to which they have access In terms of the second part of the explanation for the lack of gradient, we not find strong evidence that the quality of the GP...
... male child, gender is endogenous to fertility We assume instead, that gender of the child is exogenous to fertility so that the positive coefficient on sex of the child in Table indicates that ... The analytic sample consists of mothers with children aged 1-5 years, as of the time of the survey in 1994 The unit of observation is a child aged 1-5 years For each child, information is available ... case that birth weight is also an indicator of the overall health of the child in the womb Thus, the determinants of weight at birth are the same factors that determine the overall health of a...
... of a Cluster of Homicides of Children in Atlanta Blaser, MJ et al JAMA 1984;251:3255 –3258 Child Maltreatment Acts of commission (abuse) or omission (neglect) by a parent or other caregiver that ... impact on of Triple P outcomes ofchild maltreatment Evidence of impact Estimated changes in rates per 100,000 children 306 fewer cases ofchild maltreatment 188 fewer out -of- home placements ... 40 Florida ChildAbuse and Neglect Efforts 2007 Legislation Governor’s Office of Adoption and Child Protection The Children and Youth Cabinet Department of Children and...
... precipitants of their abuse: 71% of a sample of late onset alcohol abusers had stressful life circumstances identified as precipitating cause for their drinking problem compared to 23% of the early-onset ... DEFINITIONS The discussion of the prevention of substance abuse and misuse by senior citizens must be prefaced by a series of critical definitions of what is meant by prevention, abuse and misuse, and ... from use of one or a combination of these substances, and the effect may be sought after, this effect itself is not critical to the definition ofabuse or misuse Note also that use that begins...