Introduction In criminal law, rape is defined as sexual assault on a person without the consent of the victim. People often hear of cases of domestic violence, emotional abuse, and sexual abuse without ultimately realizing the meaning behind it. ... As I speak for myself I believe that this one of the reasons I didn't speak about my sexual abuse until years after it had occurred. ... I believe that men admit to being sexually abused much less then women out of fear of being seen as unmanly. ... We have accepted a culture which in part protects perpetrators instead of helping the victimiza...

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Alcohol abuse serves as one of the many common methods employed by students to escape reality, negative feelings and perception of self. ... Frequently students will not even remember a discussion, a fight, or sexual encounter the following day. ... Without significant relationships, young people are left with false dependence on the repeated use or abuse of alcohol as a method of easy socializing and trying to justify and cope with their emotional abyss. ...

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Juvenile delinquency studies have also found significantly high rates of alcoholism, drug dependence, mental disorders, and sexual deviance among juveniles who's parents have been incarcerated. ... Statistically, chances that a child will suffer with low self esteem, precocious sexual activity, greater delinquent like behavior and difficulty established gratifying lasting adult heterosexual relationships is significantly higher for kids involved in divorce (Bisnaire 1990). ... Adopted children have a higher incidence of juvenile delinquency, sexual promiscuity and running away from home t...

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Her power is expressed in very sexual terms: she is, McMurphy says after his first group meeting, "a ball-cutter." ... Harding and McMurphy agree that Nurse Ratched's control comes from the fact that men can't be sexually aroused by her; Mrs. ... These women are, if not sexually free, at least unafraid of their sexuality. ... In these parts of the book we can see possibilities of sexual equality the rest of the book seems to contradict. The second justification for ...

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Abuse of a person's spiritual, mental, and physical nature is usually the plan of attach. ... The kind of problem where women are seen only more sexual if they are in a stance as being submissive creatures entangled with each other. ... Basically, the need and desire to be dominated, and abused. ... She had direct parallels between abuse and advertisements. ... We in turn make it easier to abuse them. ...

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As a licensed Clinical Social Worker I could possibly practice privately working with sexually abused adolescents. ... My place of employment constantly provides training So that the staff can effectively help our clients; some of the workshops that I have attended are; The Uses of Psychotropic Medication and Adolescents, Defying the Defiant Teen, Bully Free Environment, Working With Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth, Crisis Prevention Intervention, Treating Adolescents With Aspergers Syndrome, Identifying signs of Sexual Abuse and Understanding Attention Deficit H...

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Specifically, Manley highlights the disparity between the belief that a woman's sexual chastity was priceless and the extent to which this supposedly invaluable entity was treated as a bargaining tool, a material representation of the value of a "proper" woman. ... Though sexual chastity may have been considered an entity "whose price was inestimable" it certainly was not above being traded like a material commodity - so long as it came with the proper packaging. Thus, the text reveals the paradox: sexual chastity was not a measure of how truly virtuous a woman is, but...

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He talks of the case of Kelly Michaels, where a mild-mannered, devout Catholic who loved children (Newman 175) was accused of numerous forms of sexual abuse towards the children under her care at a preschool. Newman points out that the fear that their children might have been sexually abused caused many parents to begin to automatically make assumptions and behave without trying to clearly determine what happened. ...

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A child may develop risky behaviors when living in poverty, such as turning to certain substances or engaging in sexual activities. Certain substance abuse, such as drinking alcohol or taking any type of drug, may result in many problems for this child. If a child turns to sexual activities as an escape plan, they themselves may become parents. ... As many people know, gangs are involved with many different types of crimes and various substance abuses. ...

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Therefore, in terms of Eisenstein's argument that women's girl bodies determine democracy; free from violence and sexual abuse, free from malnutrition and environmental degradation, free to plan their own families, free to not have families, free to choose their sexual lives and preferences, I agree with this view; that is, "democracy" [from this perspective] would examine a freedom, liberty, or independence of women and girls in order to gain access; such as, to have reproductive freedom, a secure , qualitative life and their own chosen life, the same social position comparing to me...

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Many had grown up in backgrounds where serious violence, drug and alcohol abuse are common experience. ... They were born in poverty and chaos, and some of them may even mentally scarred by violence and sexual abuse. ...

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They tend to start sexual activities earlier, have children before marriage, are less probable to marry, and less likely to have a successful marriage. There is more of a likely good for drug abuse, criminal activities, and suicide. ...

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Every ten seconds a child will be abused or neglected. ... Areas in the child welfare system are foster care services, adoption, prevention of abuse, family preservation services, and many more. ... All children have the right to be free from physical, sexual, emotional and other forms of harm by their parents or caregivers. ... Sometimes removing the children from a possibly dangerous home for limited time may be needed in order to enhance parental strengths, and help the parents cope, so they do not abuse or neglect their children (Crosson-Tower 2001). ...

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However, when abused, the power of television can be harmful to the general population. ... Even the tendency of daytime talk to privilege simple, individual solutions to complex social problems like racism, poverty, and sexual violence is by no means the special province of talk-shows or Reality TV more generally, but a characteristic of virtually all mainstream media texts, including programs like Nightline and 60 Minutes. ... There is room here for an analysis of fantasy, for a reading of Reality TV as an expression of what our culture lacks and therefore desires: a world in which race, gen...

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Introduction The first part of this course work is two tasks which will give an overview of care values such as dignity, respect, safeguarding and the person centered approach on how they have been implemented when working with older individuals and young adults with learning disabilities throughout different activities in a health care setting. The second part of this course work is a reflective account which describes how the care values have been demonstrated whilst supporting older individuals and young adults with learning disabilities. It also discusses how important these values ...

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Additionally, the minority groups themselves can develop reactions that are turned inward and create a sense of hopelessness, despair, and self-doubt that can lead into even more sociological problems in the form of alcoholism, drug abuse, aggression, and crime. ... News features often show and expose problems important to women such as domestic violence, gender discrimination, and sexual harassment. ...

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He begins to understand his mistakes and the faults he has made by abusing his power and sabotaging the power structure of the kingdom. ... The women of the time were tainted by their sexual capacity, whereas men were empowered by it, reinforcing the patriarchal ideology of the time. ...

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Additionally, the minority groups themselves can develop reactions that are turned inward and create a sense of hopelessness, despair, and self-doubt that can lead into even more sociological problems in the form of alcoholism, drug abuse, aggression, and crime. ... News features often show and expose problems important to women such as domestic violence, gender discrimination, and sexual harassment. ...

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Body Modification and Contemporary American Rites of Passage INTRODUCTION Rites of Passage The term "Rite of Passage" describes any rite or ritual which marks or induces a change in an individuals social position. These life changes include birth, puberty, initiation into social and familial grou...

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