(World Health Organization) "Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse, or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm" (The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act – CAPTA) "Child abuse is a very complex and dangerous set of problems that include child neglect and the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse of children.... According to one assumption 40 percent of these children are in need of care and protection, which indicates the ext...

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There were still issues of displacement for people due to the Group Areas Act . ... The issue turns into rape, as any kind of sexual intercourse or act with a child is sexual assault. ... African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) is a Pan-Africa organisation set up in 1986 in Nigeria from the First African Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect. With the headquarters in Kenya it believes in generating community awareness, like other NGO's, towards child abuse and other forms of ill treatment for child protection. ... It is a vital treaty wh...

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Abstract 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 their knowledge. Currently all 50 states have either a law enacted or are proposing Megan's Law which requires the registration of all people convicted sexual crimes because sex offenders are more prone to re-offend and it assists in protecting the public. The law requires the registration if convicted of a sex offense or certain types of kidnapping and the various laws that require registration. Megan&#x...

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Generalizing the law of protection and implementing it over slaves, meant a risk of making both owner and slave at an almost equal social level and would make their idea of ownership pointless, knowing there is no true ownership when there is no total control. ... Nor she acted upon an impulsive and instinctive reaction of anger. ... White free women, like enslaved black women, were both under the protection of the same man. ...

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The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act was enforced in 1974 along with the creation of the National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect. ... The reason for this is "a lack of social protection- and growing numbers of tourists from developed countries who come to Latin America on sex tours, according to Agnes Fournier de Saint Maur of Interpol's general secretariat.31 Child sexual abuse is such an evil, insidious thing that reaches its tentacles into every aspect of the survivor's life. ...

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In both instances, under one ruling, the court, consistent with the sexually conservative morals of the time ruled in favor of the government, stating: "The protection given speech and press was fashioned to assure unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people but implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance"#. ... The portrayal of sex, e.g., in art, literature and scientific works, is not itself sufficient reason to deny material the constitutional pr...

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Teenagers in the United States are experimenting with sexual activities more and more today than ever before. According to Charles Krauthammer, "Sex oozes from every pore of the culture and there's not a kid in the world who can avoid it." (Meier, 1994, p. 7). Teenagers are surrounded by some sort o...

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Sexual education is important to the wellbeing of our nation's youth. It has been said that knowledge is power. If the students throughout the United States are not properly educated on the consequences of sexual activity then they cannot be blamed for the repercussions that will follow unsafe sex. ...

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With greater public discussion has come greater awareness that children have been abused not only in their own homes and by strangers, but also in institutions where they were placed for their education, welfare, rehabilitation or even protection. ...

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"Sexual Violence- While the crimes of "rape- and "incest- have been on the statute books for hundreds of years, it was not until the 1970s that "sexual violence- was more fully explored and developed as a concept. Feminists drew attention to the fact that rape (then conceptualised as sexual intercourse without consent) was a crime committed by men against women, not only in dark back-alleys but in homes, workplaces, and in the context of intimate and family relationships (see Brownmiller 1975). Feminism responsible for debunking some of the myths about rape • women "ask for it...

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His goal is to be with this girl and will do anything to do so, even if it means cleaning up his act and trying to actually graduate. ... The safe sex practices are used through dialogue, and promoting safe sex with protection. ...

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