Family violence can be defined as one family member making violent, emotionally harmful or assaultive behaviors towards a "spouse, child or any other family member" (Besharov, 1990). ... In some families, siblings may show violence to each other. ... Sexually abused children are misled to believe that the sexual intentions of their fathers are normal and are a true testimony of genuine love and affection that any normal father can accord his child. ... For example, wives believe that most of the time their husbands abuse them out of love. ... It is important to organize therapy sessions for th...

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In this novel, Yunior's father, Ramon, came in and out of the family's life. ... It also tells of his struggles with love and being on his own in adulthood. ... Yunior loves his family and wants it to remain intact after the long years of separation, but he also realizes that he must accept that this is not their reality. ... He loves her very much but Aurora is a troubled girl because she is addicted to drugs. ... In this story, it is clear that Yunior is naive and not knowledgeable about how to date a woman by saying, "Tell her that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, ...

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Myth As a CPS worker, I'll be saving or rescuing children from parents who don't care about them or don't love them. Reality You will certainly be providing much needed services to vulnerable families and you will be working with families whose children cannot safely remain in the home. However, for the most part, the parents whose children are removed by CPS do love and care about their children; they simply do not have the resources, supports, energy, understanding, or coping skills necessary to be able to meet their children's needs. ... The children removed by CPS ...

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A common form of emotional abuse is "I love you, but..." ... It indicates, "I love you now, but if you don't stop such-and such, that love is of short duration." ... Most parents love their children and want nothing but the best for them. ... Physical violence is more common in poor families, families living under stress or parents who suffered cruelty as children. ... Many experts think that terrible pressures on today's family are partly to blame for the excess of abuse in today's families. ...

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It is at this point that Karl truly becomes a member of the family, and the plot thickens. ... Linda sympathizes with Karl, which is why she embraces him into their small family. ... First, love and protection. ... Linda stays with Doyle out of love (and lonliness) and Frank stays around even with Doyle present, due to love. Karl kills not only out of love but also because he is trying to protect his loved ones. ...

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In turn, that child gets a sense of neglect and does not feel loved. ... If one is around abuse they definitely do not see an example of love in the home. ... Quality family time seems to be decreasing in the past several years. The family needs to spend time together to stay close. ... Everyone needs to love all of those around them no matter what. ...

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Many people involved in the health care field do not understand the importance of displaying unconditional love. ... You must have a passion to do a job with love and care. ... The families of these elderly folks are spending the money on themselves. ... The family was using the money to pay a grandchild's child support. ... We must realize if we stand together and fight against the enemy we can prevent these types of acts for happening in our family or someone else family. ...

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A Family Torn Apart "This ring I give you, in token and pledge of our constant faith and abiding love." When reciting these vows to a loved one, an individual is committing oneself to a life long relationship which goes far beyond the lines of "dating." ... In Karen Brennan's short story "Runaways," we observe how physical abuse and infidelity leads to a family's separation and the resulting destructive impact on family and friends. ... The children's best interest should be the family's first priority. ... Lou and her family may have needed to escape the bonds of a di...

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In most instances, to rub salt into the pre-existing wound, they are denied the thing that most children should be recipients of at that birth, a parent's unconditional love ("Narcissism ", n.d.). . ... A narcissistic parent does not seek the love and approval of their children as they are able to love themselves enough. ... Usually, when a child raised in this situation does begin their own family, there is a three step process that can occur, depending on the nature of their upbringing as a Scapegoat or Golden Child. In the first stage, many of the ˜Golden Children' or ...

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Siblings form one of the most unique relationships within the family unit. ... This view is important to consider because it appears that there is a significant amount of pressure for siblings to love the very person that they are competing against for parental affection. ... Participants included 188 families with first and second born adolescents. ... In about one third of the families, either one or both parents favored the secondborn sibling. ... Turning to the child abuse issue, many researchers argue that "power assertion and love withdrawal are likely to be interpreted by children...

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Abstract The very idea of someone you think you know or love, causing you bodily or emotional harm seems unreal to most. ... Can you imagine one of your friends or loved ones suffering some sort of abuse from domestic violence? ... Being raised in a violent or abusive home, sets an example for what is accepted when it comes to interacting with loved ones. ... Families in rural Alaska communities are among some of the most common sufferers of domestic violence and face some of the biggest challenges. ... Having more help for these families and individuals in the village itself would be greatly ...

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All was well until about the age of five, her mother married and there was now a stepfather; not your typical nice guy who loved the kids, or maybe he did love them just a little to much. ... Families just endured or split apart-(2). Eventually she told a family member who informed Dorothy's mother about the abuse. ... As time went on Dorothy grew through her childhood stages and became the first in her family to graduate high school. ... Another story written by Allison, Gun Craz, starts off painting a nice picture of this family who goes out and does things together. ...

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Slavery destroyed any attempt towards having a normal family but he tried to create a family in different ways in order to survive his own conditions. Since his family was torn apart disrupted by slavery at very early age he had to form a family. ... Fredrick Douglass has such a talent at pulling his readers into the writing and making them envision what is happening, that anyone could fall in love with his writing. ... Douglass soon married and created his own permanent family. ... He had to rely on memories and experiences in order to create a stable family setting for his family. ...

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Rita told me there once was a case where she was a counselor for a family. ... Maybe helping to relocate the victim and their family, get a job, and have steady counseling to help ease the situation. ... She also loves to hear stories when her clients returning. ... She stated many needed to know there is going to be a long road to healing ahead, for both the family and the child. ... I'm a very compassionate person, and would love to help people they way they do. ...

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Her family and friends felt she found the perfect husband and had the perfect family. ... He was a lawyer and financially took care of the family. ... Peg came from a typical home with a big family and great family values. ... With her parents in love with her boyfriend and the whole town idolizing him, Whitney gave in to the pressure to take him back and at first it seemed as if he has changed. ... What she had to deal with was the constant question of why did she fall in love with a man that ended up abusing her. ...

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The highest numbers of bullies were found on children from middle to high SES families in comparison to children from low SES families. ... I am the middle child in my family. ... I loved it. ... I loved the friends I was hanging out with and I remember feeling that I finally belonged. ... After about 6 years of living in my addiction, my family had enough. ...

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An issue in New Zealand that has been gaining a lot of press in recent years has been the astronomical rise in child abuse by family members. ... Because of Mama Elena's selfishness, she had decreed that in the keeping with tradition, Tita was forbidden to marry, find true love and leave the home. ... She was denying Tita the love and the fulfilment that a successful marriage can bring. ... It is especially relevant to New Zealand society where family abuse is a significant issue. ... A belief and tradition in the De la Garza family was that the youngest daughter should stay at home, n...

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The author mainly covers the relationship between his family. ... He describes his mother as a beautiful woman, who loves and cherished her kids , who changed from this " The Mother," who abused him because she was alcoholic and was sick. ... He describers how the love went to hate for his brothers had grew more and more toward the book. ... His brother's starts to take their mother side and start to treat David as non-member of the family. ... Dave's purpose of writing these books was to tell the world, how he was treated like many other kids are treated in the families. ...

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Separation from all family contact often caused depression for the children, they spent all their time sad, scared, and lonely. Their parents often didn't visit them, leaving them feeling abandoned and unable to find love anywhere. They were not taught love and affection at the schools, this left them feeling deprived and confused. ... When they did have their own families, they did not know how to live a family life. They were deprived of this for up to 9 years in Residential schools and had no clue as to how a person goes about sharing their emotions and showing love and affection. ...

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Defined simply, a problem relationship is when the basic human needs of the individuals involved are not being met (remember love and respect are needs). For the record, love is about openness, caring, pleasure, commitment, respecting differences and compromising. ... More often than not, people in bad relationships do feel love. ... As nice as another person can be, just because they have good qualities, and you love them, are not always reasons to stay. ... Love isn't supposed to hurt " a good relationship is supposed to bolster self-esteem, not shred it to pieces. ...

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Factory farming has been in the American and European culture for over 200 years now, and is considered one of the foremost sources for our food supply for today's population. However, with the growing awareness to animal cruelty in this world, many people have been considering our current culture a...

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The entire family becomes isolated. ... Viewing family violence is traumatizing to a child and is considered to be a form of child abuse. ... Children living in this type of situation develop conflicted feelings of love and hate for both parents, and live in constant fear that the family will break up, that their mother will be badly hurt or leave them, or that they themselves could be hurt by the batterer. ... Family therapy approaches may include counseling for mother and child, and referrals to other family support services. Because of the potential dangers, few family therapy programs incl...

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This abuse causes much turmoil for not only the partnership but also for the family that is involved in. ... This article touches on many of the things mentioned in the previous article however also touches on specific studies done on families that have a history of domestic violence. ... The article also outlines different types of exposure to domestic violence and then suggests routes that can be taken in order to help the family heal and to prevent any further injury or lasting psychological or physical scarring. ... It also helps to explain to the health care provider the concept that ...

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Men continue to tell their partners that they still love them after they already battered them. ... Her family ties and friendships have been destroyed. ... The abuser was probably brought up that way from an abusive family. ... They lost their family and friends because of her abuser. ...

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She is a very caring person at heart and she falls in love too fast, she's also really quirky and has high expectations but, when she is in a stressful situation she shuts people out and goes into her own world of thinking. ... The next few days she started hinting, as Christen, about going to home coming with Lara at his school and told Lara he loved her. ... Even Liam was getting punished for what his family did, he got beat up at school because of what his mom and sister had done. ... Kelly had an election going on and her husband's lawsuit showed that the Kelly's aren't...

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