... the mother than the father. These children are much more likely to be living in poverty than any other type of child. Abused and neglected children are another social problem among schools. Three million cases of child abuse are reported to child ... services annually. More than eight hundred thousand of these cases are substantiated. Three fifths of these children suffer from neglect, one fifth ... suffer from physical abuse, and one tenth of these children were victims of sexual abuse. Another issue is alcohol and drug abuse. Four out of every five students have consumed alcohol by th...

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... they seek out to find the one responsible for informing the child of the wrongdoing. Once the parents address the guilty sibling, he is disciplined because of his heartless intentions. In this instance, the child is not held accountable for his actions even though he was the one guilty for performing the offense; the parents might even argue that the child did not know any better, and that the older sibling is all to ... from generation to generation like a wildfire. "Thus we find Hippocrates in the fifth century B.C.E. in Greece seeking to explain the (supposed) superiority of his own ...

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