Nonabused Children Essay

The film, “One night the Moon” by Rachel Perkins and , “Took the children away” by Archie Roach are comparative texts. Through Rachel Perkins’ use of effects, techniques and imagery, the audience can clearly understand that her view of family ties and the stolen generation is very similar to the song “Took the children away”. Family ties is shown clearly throughout the film “One night the moon". Early in the movie, Jim's family is a happy and cosy family which can be seen by the close up camera angle in Emily's room shows her happy face singing with Rose and then Jim takes Rose out after a goodnight kiss for Emily. The song “One night the moon" by Paul Kelly creates an image of a soft, slow, and warm feeling for that scene.

(James, 2008) Children who are sexually abused are generally abused by someone that they know. Men are not the only ones that sexually abuse children. Women who have been abused themselves tend to

In the book No Crueler Tyrannies, Dorothy Rabinowitz builds the nature of her criticism upon false confessions extracted by leading questions and groundless ideas implanted into the minds of children to get a testimony by psychologists who are acting prejudiced under the influence of social hysteria, which was raised majorly by media in response to the Child Abuse Reporting Act that terrorized United States starting in mid 70’s. With Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, which was enacted in 1974, people started to wake up to possible abuses happening around them and began to report any kind of suspicious demeanor. Every report regardless of its reliability was drummed up by the media and contributed to a moral panic situation in 80’s.

Lapedo Child was another treasure in the scientific world. At first, it looked like a regular child skeleton that had been specially buried in a spiritual ritual. Even the ochre stained bones, animal bones, charcoal, tiny traces of pollen, the four deer teeth and two periwinkle shells did not raise too much of an attention. Nor did the fact that Lapedo Child was just four when he died, of unknown causes. Everything about Lapedo Child indicated he was a modern human.

CHILDREN FIRST (2011) The Children first National Guidance for the protection and welfare of children and the accompanying child protection and Welfare Practice Handbook set out clearly how children should be protected. It ensures that all children are protected in all aspects of their lives where they live, learn, pray and play and that no child will ever be harmed and neglected. The key areas in the guidelines are as follows: • Definitions and Recognition of Child Abuse – It provides a basis for reporting concerns and standing reporting procedure. • Interagency Co-operation - Roles and responsibilities of organisations and personnel working with children.

Psychological writers have argued that “children are the most dangerous of all witnesses” (Brigham, Van Verst and Bothwell, 1986, p. 296). The dependability of a witness’s recall of events should be of great importance to everyone;a person will never know when guilt or innocence may be dependant on how well a child can recall an event they have witnessed. A field

Child abuse is one of many forms of abuse that occur in the world. Although there are many different types, forms, and scenarios when it comes to child abuse, it should always be taken seriously. Every case is important. Child abuse takes a toll on many kids and could potentially have a long term effect on their everyday lives. Child abuse will affect a child’s healthy and proper development.

Over the past two decades, increased cases of domestic violence and children as witnesses have led to agencies developing practices and programs to reduce cases of system-related trauma among children (National Institute of Justice (U.S.), American Bar Association & American Bar Association, 1999). These programs have proven to be multidisciplinary and aimed at reducing anxiety and depression among kids. The programs also touch on various areas that include preventing future cases of victimization, coordination of the responses of agencies dealing with child victims, access of treatment to children who have been victims of domestic violence and facilitate representation and support for child victims in both juvenile courts and the criminal justice system (Law.lclark.edu, 2015). The other innovative strategies that can reduce trauma among children include the preparation of children for the witness stand in a manner that considers the child’s mental health and is developmentally appropriate. It is at this point where a clinician is required to assess the psychological condition of a child and determine whether it would be appropriate for them to testify or not.

“Child sexual abuse has been correlated with higher levels of depression, guilt, shame, self-blame, eating disorders, somatic concerns, anxiety, dissociative patterns, repression, and denial. It has been shown that survivors often take personal responsibility for the abuse.” (Browne & Finklehor, 1986 p. 66-77). Often times, children are abused by someone close to them; either someone they know, or someone they trust. Thus, when the abuse is done by a trusted adult, it may be hard for the child to view the perpetrator in a negative light, causing the victim to obtain self-blame and self-hatred.

When children and teens commit a violent crime such as murder, courts convict them as adults. This means that children as young as eight have been tried as adults in court. Eventually, these convicts will be housed in jails with adults. Despite the federal law stating that juvenile and adult inmates must be separated, most states do not comply with these rules. Furthermore, a law that varies throughout the states is the age in which courts send the children to adult or juvenile prisons.

As the circumstances of child abuse testimonies have only started being taken seriously in the past thirty or so years, there has not been much research on the short term and long term effects of children testifying in criminal court. All child abuse cases are individually significant to their circumstances and they are almost always complicated when it comes to children having to testify in court. The effect of abuse on the child, be it short term or long term appear to be worse if the abuse came from a family member, especially a parental figure and if the child had to testify multiple times. It is also very difficult to discern whether if the child displays signs of trauma if it was a result of the abuse, the harshness of testifying in court; in many cases in front of the abuser, or if it was a combination of the whole ordeal. There are also certain conditions, a child has that can make them more predisposed to experiencing the ordeal as extremely

There are a lot of charities and other organisation that are involved in the protection and safeguarding of children and young people. There are laws and legislation in place which all organisations and charities have to follow which is a basic level of care. They have on obligation to ensure best practise is followed to safeguard young children. Safeguarding is more than child protection and it promotes child welfare and it also protect them from harm. Safeguarding is to protect children from maltreatment, prevent bad health and bad treatment.

According to statistics, suicide has a low occurrence among children under the age of ten. Based on the U.S. Department of Health (2012), child suicide is defined as a human behavior that is associated with psychiatric, psychological factors, biological factors, and a history of trauma, societal and cultural factors. It also states that suicide is the “4th leading cause of death among children between the ages of 10 and 14.”(U.S. Dept. 2013) Several things are thought to correlate with suicide in children. Some examples include a combination of biological, psychological, cognitive and environmental factors contribute to the risk of suicide.

The child has natural and imprescriptible rights under Article 42.5, however these rights are not expressed and it is up to the courts to decide what these rights are depending on the case moreover this Article only permits state intervention in exceptional cases where the parent has failed in its duty towards the child. In G v An Bord Uchtala the Supreme Court sought to elaborate the scope of the “natural and imprescriptible” rights of the child. The unmarried mother in this case sought the return of her child after she put the child up for adoption and was deemed to have failed her duty to her child and thus abandoned her rights as a mother.

They believe that the chances for getting charged is very low, if existing at all. However, sexual abuse isn’t the only way children are being harmed by a trustworthy individuals in our society. Out of all violent offenses committed against child and youth under the age of 17 in 2010, 17 810 of them were classified as family violence. Families are “created” in order to guide and support individuals, to form a circle of trust but the opposite is happening. Most of the abuse can be assumed to