According to Bandyopadhyay and Omar (2010), dating violence is any emotional, psychological, physical, and/or sexual act that is abusive in nature. ... Types of Abuse - Physical Abuse: occurs when a teen is pinched, hit, shoved, or kicked - Emotional Abuse: threatening a teen or harming his/her sense of self worth - Sexual Abuse: forcing a teen to engage in a sex act (e.g. fondling and rape) Consequences of Dating Violence In addition to an increase of risk for injury, victims of dating violence are at increased risk for binge drinking, suicide attempts, physical fights, and sexual activ...

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Child abuse is a very common problem. Many children are abused in some form whether it is physical, verbal, or emotional neglect chances are you may have been or known of a child that has been abused. Sexual assault of children (mainly boys) is a concern for many when considering the problems of same sex families. In a study done of a 175 incarcerated Massachusetts men who were imprisoned for the sexual assault of children, none of the prisoners had relations exclusively with men. ... Men who are comfortable enough with their sexuality to marry other men are more likely men who identify w...

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As for men substance abuse, conduct disorder, personality disorders, Intermittent explosive disorder, and Pathological gambling were more commonly diagnosed. ... As a group gays and lesbians have somewhat higher rates of depression, substance abuse, and attempted suicide. ... And that any resort to sexual reassignment surgery. ...

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Parents should be judged by their ability to be good parents, not by their sexual orientation. ... Society also believes that children who are in contact with gay men or lesbians face an increased risk of being sexually abused. According to www.prevent-abuse-now.com, Statistics indicate that 90 percent of all children who are sexually abused involve a heterosexual male perpetrator. Sexual orientation, whether "gay- or "straight-, is an adult sexual attraction to other adults. ... Sexual orientation should not disqualify people from being considered for an adoptive or foster parenting posit...

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Sexual activity, however, does not reflect either present or future sexual orientation. ... Sexual behavior does not predict sexual orientation. ... Which include establishing a sexual identity and declining on sexual behaviors, whether choosing to engage in sexual intercourse or not. ... (Bridget) Peers may engage in cruel name-calling, ostracize, or even physically abuse the identified individual. ... Such rejection may lead to isolation, runaway behavior, homelessness, domestic violence, depression, suicide, substance abuse, and school or job failure. ...

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(American Civil Liberties Union) Most states that have considered lesbian and gay adoptions have rejected the notion that a person's sexual orientation is enough to brand them "unfit" parents. ... (Patterson) Finally, judges have expressed a concern that gay or lesbian parents are more likely to sexually abuse their children. ... (Patterson) Finally, concerns that homosexual parents are more likely to sexually abuse their children over heterosexual parents have also been addressed by researchers. Results in the research reveal that the majority of parents that perpetrate sexual abuse...

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Prince abuses Apollonia mentally and physical. ... In Purple Rain, Prince uses Apollonia and abuses her mentally and physically. ... Brandon doesn't physically abuse the women he encounters them unlike Prince who does because it's a learned behavior from his father. Prince, even though he abuses Apollonia, he does care for her and has this emotional attachment to her. ... One moment Prince is abusing Apollonia and the next thing you know it, he treats her like a brand new Bentley. ...

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Conservative groups typically believe that gay men are more likely to sexually abuse children, along with the assumption that gay parents raise gay children. ... Furthermore, the connection between sexual orientation and child abusers cannot be found. ... Pedophilia, an adult sexual attraction to children, is one- hundred times more likely to occur by a heterosexual male. ... They have done this using the "best interest of the child " standard, and not the "sexual orientation of the parent" standard. ...

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"A Rose For Emily" by William Faulkner deals with the shocking subject of morbid fascination, resistance to change, and the lasting effects of a father's pattern of psychological abuse; however, I do not believe it deals with necrophilia per se. The term necrophilia implies a sexual component, which is not overtly evident in the story. ... This incessant psychological abuse is described as "too virulent and too furious to die" within Emily's psyche. The thwarting of Emily's womanhood has instilled in her a fear of intimacy and a lack of control over her actions that w...

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This had been proven that both of those, sexual abuse and gender confusion, cannot happen. ... People usually assume that gay parents will sexually abuse children. ... Why does the society need to assume that homosexuals do vulgar things like sexual abuse? Some say that children in homosexual families will be sexually abused. Statistics show that ninety percent of all children sexual abuse cases involve a heterosexual male ("Issues and News"). ...

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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 jeopardy. However, inconsistencies in the research subjects' abuse records ruled these theories out. ... More recently, however, scientists have begun to view sexual preferences as hereditary. ... Most homosexual men and women have always had the same sexual orientation. ... Also, 86% of gay men had their first sexual activity with another male. ...

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Epigene can be motivated by family influences, sexual assault and cultural issues. ... Another factor is sexual assault. ... In the journal Archives of Sexual Behaviour (2001), Richard Green used comparative data on childhood and adolescence states and found that children who have experienced sexual abuse are more likely to become homosexual (Green). ... As a result, sexual assault is a contributing factor for homosexuality. ... Opposing views claimed that culture does not influence sexual preferences. ...

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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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The other side feels that all youth, regardless of sexual orientation and that meet the minimum age requirements, should be able to join scouting. ... They also are required to take a training called Youth Protection, a program that goes through the BSA's policies on issues such as harassment, bullying, sexual abuse, and also what signs to look for and how to protect the well being and safety of youth. ... Once the training is completed, leaders are then required to report any signs of abuse to authorities, in and out of the scouting program. ... By allowing scouting to be fully inclusive...

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One population that often turns to counseling is the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, or Questioning (LGBTQ) community. ... Additionally, while counseling about gender issues, the counselor needs to be aware of co-occurring conditions such as depression, alcoholism, inability to perform at school or work, and victim to abuse, which are all prevalent in the LGBTQ population. ... They bargain with their child not to tell anyone about his or her sexual tendency for fear of the societal reaction. Many parents go into depression thinking that their child has such sexual tendencies. ... The par...

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As the AIDS epidemic began to affect increasingly large fractions of those two populations (gay males and IV drug abusers), many of the rest of this society looked on smugly, for both populations tended to be despised by the "mainstream" of society here. ... Sexual activity is one of the primary ways AIDS is transmitted. ... Note that even if you don't care what happens to I.V. drug abusers, the increase in the number of people carrying the virus ultimately endangers all living persons. ... The danger of contracting AIDS is so real now that it has massively affected the beha...

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Sexual orientation, biological sex, gender identity, and sex-role comprise sexual identity. ... Sexual identity therefore is of main concern. ... This theory implies that disordered family relationships, death, divorce, family abuse and other elements of a dysfunctional family atmosphere contribute to children becoming GLB. ... Recent legal rulings have set precedence for other cases dealing with abuse and harassment in schools of GLB students. ... Podlesny (1996), resulted in a settlement of one million dollars because school personnel ignored the constant abuse of Jaime Nabozny in a Wisc...

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Unfortunately, the main cause of bullying is usually due to something that may set the bullied individual apart from the "norm ", and one of those main causes is sexual orientation. ... No one is born hating other people because of their sexual orientation, it is a behavior that is picked up from observations children make as they are developing. ... This can then manifest into exclusion, repulsion, and even verbal or physical abuse. ... That is to say, a high percentage of young gay teens have either been kicked out of their homes because their caretakers could not accept their sexual orienta...

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Homosexual marriage will lead to the end of sexual morality and the family union some may say. With the high availability of pornography through the Internet and at the local corner store sexual morality is al ready declining. ... If music videos of men and women barely dressed rubbing against each other on public television aren't showing the decline of sexual morality, then what is? ... The Massachusetts attorney general conducted an investigation concluding that priests and other church workers in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston have sexually abused at least 789 children since...

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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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Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind.... Majority of the states' laws consider same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional, and, in those states, employers are allowed to hire homosexuals based only on sexual orientation and landlords are allowed to decide not to rent a house or apartment to a homosexual. ... Conservative Christian people also believe that gay people abuse children. Therefore many scientists have been researching on this issue and it has been proven that sexual orientation has nothing to d...

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Nicole Newman English 1101 March 20, 2003 Boys Don't Cry The movie Boy's Don't Cry is based on the real story of a young woman named Teena Brandon who has a sexual identity crisis. ... Teena Brandon had gone through great lengths to hide her sexual orientation because of what society today does and does not accept in human behavior. I believe like Teena Brandon, a lot of people who share her feelings do hide or try to become someone else for fear of being accused of flaunting, being verbally abused, or physically attacked as was Teena Brandon when her secret identity had b...

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Civil life being married to sex is a fairly new idea that came about with the conception that sexual identity and sexual expression is a civil right. Along with the idea of civil life being married to sex comes the idea that sexual identity is a form of citizenship, which coins the term "sexual citizen". (Siebers, 2008: 37) Kenneth Plummer defines sexual citizenship as "the control (or not) over one's body, feelings, relationships: access (or not) to representations, relationships, public spaces, etc; and socially grounded choices (or not) about identities, gender experiences" (Siebers, 2...

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In our century, and in earlier centuries, members of the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender community have been persecuted because of their sexual orientation. ... Gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender people are the third highest category of hate crimes committed on minorities. ... That means that gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender people can be fired for their sexual orientation in 36 states in this country. ... The same goes for students dropping out of high school because of abuse. ... Not for race, sex, size, wealth or sexual orientation. ...

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This essay is on diversity in culture through the sociological perspective, and how it pertains to a minority group's sexual orientation. ... There was no history of sexual abuse, or otherwise, that may have lead him to his sexual orientation. ... He held it to inform his family of his sexual orientation. ... A sexual orientation will not change who they are, but effects how others view him. (Sterotypes, SP, pg. 113) To date, 29 states are still able to still fire a person based upon their sexual preferences. ...

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