Research into partner violence is so new that comparable data on psychological and sexual abuse by intimate partners are few. Physical violence in intimate relationships almost always is accompanied by psychological abuse and, in one-third to over one-half of cases, by sexual abuse. (Straus and Gelles, 1986) For example, among 613 abused women in Japan, 57% had suffered all three types of abuse "physical, psychological, and sexual. ... In Monterrey, Mexico, 52% of physically abused women had also been sexually abused by their partners. In Leon, Nicaragua, among 188 women who were physi...

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Some forms of physical and sexual abuse, fall under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Code. ... Sexual abuse is described as making victims do any sexual acts they do not want to do. There are other types of abuse, that occur in families, which can be as devastating as physical and sexual abuse, but are not punishable by the Criminal Code. ... Why do siblings abuse one another? ... Sexual and generational inequalities within the family can affect violence. ...

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Also, there is a significant correlation that exists between childhood sexual abuse and teenage pregnancy. ... Findings compare sexually abused pregnant teens to pregnant teens that had not suffered sexual abuse; the results show that sexually abused girls initiated intercourse a year earlier than the ones who had not. ... The fact that females who were sexually abused as children are three times more likely to become a teen mom and that two thirds of teen moms were either sexually abused or raped by a relative is unnerving. ... Hafford pertains directly to teenage alcohol abuse and the toll i...

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There are two primary theories and assumptions as to why a sexual offenders commit sexual violence or assault. ... These range from biological factors such as evolution, physiology, substance abuse, and psychopathology. ... Alcohol affects men's perception of women's sexual intent. ... Clearly, the use or abuse of alcohol does not entirely account for the incidence of sexual assault in our society. ... Violent sex offenders have been found to be more likely than other adults to have experienced poor parental child-rearing, poor supervision, physical abuse, neglect, and separatio...

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The Nedlac Code of Good Practice, August 1999, defines sexual harassment as: (1) Unwanted conduct of a sexual nature. ... What may be defined as sexual harassment? ... Verbal abuse may take the form of sexual jokes, comments with sexual overtones, inquiries about a person's sex life and unwelcome gestures, indecent exposure, and unwelcome display of sexually explicit pictures or objects. ... What may be not considered sexual harassment? ... What can one do as a victim of sexual harassment? ...

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The National Elder Abuse Incidence Study has shed new light on this significant problem with the finding that approximately 450,000 elderly persons in domestic settings were abused and/or neglected during 1996. ... In the NEAIS, the phrase "elder maltreatment" generally refers to the seven types of abuse and neglect that are measured in the study-physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional or psychological abuse, financial or material exploitation, abandonment, neglect, and self-neglect. ... Who are the reporters of abuse and neglect? ... Estimated Incidence of Elder Abuse and/or Neglect in 1996 ...

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Alcohol is liquid distilled product of fermented fruits, grains and vegetables used as solvent, antiseptic and sedative moderate potential for abuse. ... You probably know why alcohol is abused some reasons are relaxation, sociability, and cheap high. ... Alcohol is often used by substance abusers to enhance the effects of other drugs. Alcohol continues to be the most frequently abused substance among young adults. ... Alcohol abuse is a pattern of problem drinking that results in health consequences, social, problems, or both. ...

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There are four basic forms of child abuse: emotional abuse, neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. ... Sexual Abuse is the inappropriate sexual behavior with an adult to a child. ... If a stranger commits these acts, it would be considered sexual assault and handled solely by the police and criminal courts. ... According to a 1994 survey, physical abuse represented 21% of confirmed cases, sexual abuse 11%, neglect 49% and emotional maltreatment 3% (AAPC). ... Over 90% of child sexual abuse cases present to prosecutors do not go to trial. ...

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Domestic violence is an abuse of power usually perpetrated by men to exercise control over women and children (BWRI 2003). ... There are different forms of domestic violence: physical abuse, sexual abuse, economic abuse, and emotional abuse. ... Sexual abuse includes, but is not limited to, rape, sexual assault, sexual possessiveness, enforced prostitution, and other sexual acts against the victims will (BWRI 2003). ... Forty to sixty percent of men who abuse women also abuse children (American Psychological Association 1996). ... When children witness abuse, they are seeing, hearing, and lea...

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In fact most children who are exposed to such factors have the ability to transcend them and live non-criminal lives. 7A United States study on adolescent sexual offenders found that over 60% had been physically abused, almost half had been sexually assaulted and 70% had been subject to neglect, while over half the sample had experienced a combination of these forms of abuse as children. ... All economic groups, all levels of intelligence, all races, and all religions are represented in the backgrounds of adolescent sexual abusers. ... Getting back to the psychoanalytic approach, it would be ...

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Effects of alcohol consumption to the fetus during pregnancy Consuming alcohol during pregnancy has many harmful consequences to a fetus. As many as 12,000 infants are born each year with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), a disease solely caused by the exposure of the fetus to alcohol during pregnan...

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The term sexual harassment was coined in American in the early 1970s to describe unwanted sexual attention. ... This was not sexual harassment, but the military has very strict policies on both sexual harassment and pornography, zero tolerance. ... Sexual harassment includes all unwelcome sexual advanced, requests for sexual favors and others such as verbal or physical conduct. ... Even though I have defined what sexual harassment is, what constitutes sexual harassment in the minds of most men and women is very broad. ... Sexual remarks according to ...

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Studies have proven time and time again that comprehensive sexual education does not increase the rates of sexual initiations and it doesn't lower the age at which youth's initiate sex either. ... This will only promote the transmission of disease, suicidal feelings, and substance abuse among LGBT youths.... They also discriminate against abused youths. These programs provide no outlet for those children who have been sexually abused. Those children are taught to believe that waiting until marriage is a choice and it could be a possibility that they are no longer virgins because of r...

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Opponents of gay adoption argue that allowing children to be adopted by homosexual couples puts them at risk of sexual abuse and disadvantages them by placing them in a morally corrupt environment. ... Again, why does one's sexual orientation govern the type of person he or she is? ... The elements of a good parent are not influenced by sexual orientation. ... In a recent article published by the American Civil Liberties Union, it was found that: Ninety percent of child abuse is committed by heterosexual men. In one study of 269 cases of child sexual abuse, only two of the offenders w...

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(National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.) ... Many college students do not take the detrimental impact of alcohol abuse among our nation's young people seriously. ... Vomiting and littering in public places is a common aftereffect of alcohol abuse. ... Excessive drinking also contributes to fights and sexual violence. It is estimated that, each year, 600,000 college students aged 18 to 24 are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape. ...

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Children from single parent families are twice likely to have psychiatric disorders, attempted suicide, and abuse alcohol and use narcotic drugs. ... Child Abuse Child abuse is where a care taker brings harm to the child. This can be physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Children living in single parent families are at risk of child abuse. Low income and stress from work puts the single mothers or fathers at risk of child abusers. ...

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It has been observed that wherever armies go there follows sexual commerce along with rape, sexual abuse, and prostitution. ... Comfort women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army. ... One who is submissive, obedient, docile, and fulfills all of their wildest sexual fantasies. ... Prostitution involves violence and abuse, it is an act of male domination that stems from the patriarchal order of modern society. There is a possibility that soldiers use prostitution as proving their strength and dominance by sexual and physical abuse. ...

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Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allie. ... " These commanders will chain young Afghan boys to their beds and sexually abuse them, while their screams can be heard throughout the military base. ...

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They cannot complain or leave and experience physical and mental abuse and no wages and poor living conditions (Itoh, 2005). ... The organization End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT-USA)has estimated that over 30,000 children in the United States are at-risk of enslavement (Itoh, 2005). ... Research shows a clear link between desperate circumstances, like abject poverty or domestic abuse, as the most definitive symptom of susceptibility to human trafficking. ... Fueled by abuse, drugs, and constant threats, the woman has little re...

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Or that child abuse can lead to lesbianism when the special needs of a little girl are denied, ignored, or exploited and the future womanhood of the child is in risk. However, inconsistencies in the research subjects' abuse records ruled these theories out. ... This research will specifically focus on the sexual identity of lesbianism and how it is dealt with in other cultures globally. ... This term is the act of women engaging in sexual activities with other women with the approval of their elders. ... This was one topic that I did not see much conversation about the man, other than h...

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In our penitentiaries, problems like rape, racism, gangs, robbery, assault, extortion, drug abuse and murder within the walls of the prisons are cries so serious that they are deteriorating the American correctional system. ... According to Cindy Stuckman-Johnson, who reported in the Journal of Sex Research, 22 percent of male inmates in Nebraska prisons experienced unwanted sexual contact, and, in most of the cases it will occurred more than once (Hell Behind Bars 24). ... In order to survive and not be abused by other convicts, the new inmates affiliate with a gang; this is considered a...

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Megan's Law and Childhood Sexual Abuse Prevention Megan's Law is named after seven-year-old Megan Kanka, a girl who was raped and killed by a known child molester who had moved across the street from the family without the community's knowledge. ... "He pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault and attempting to cause serious bodily injury to the girl. ... When sexual offenders were rearrested they were much more likely to be arrested for another sex offense. ... (Legal) Of those individuals that had been incarcerated for sexual assault they "were 7.5 times as likely as t...

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Severe consequences can occur when adolescents use or abuse alcohol if they are not addressed in a timely manner. Binge drinking, health illness, court cost, jail time and fees are among the money consequences that occur when adolescents use or abuse alcohol. ... Research has shown that prevention and treatment methods set the foundations for stability and change among adolescents who use or abuse alcohol. ... It is said that adolescents from lower socio-economic status usually has a parent who uses or abuses alcohol (Clark, 2004). ... According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and ...

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The proposed reauthorization of this act intended to not only ensure the continuation of the previous law, but proposed to expand its protection by promoting state and local efforts to combat rape and domestic violence, protecting women, gays, and Native Americans.1 With on going issues of violence and sexual abuse, Congress felt that these issues needed to be addressed immediately. ... The first thing this policy would do is remove problems that gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender victims face by giving all victims of the LGBT community access to the same services and rights that str...

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Whites in the U.S have related to so called nonwhite groups by sexual violence that is committed within the same racial group by heterosexual men who know their victim. If our children and we are beaten up, sexually assaulted or abused it is most likely to be by heterosexual white men, but we continue to believe that we need to protect ourselves from men who are different. ...

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