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…or more commonly known as a "basket case". A child must receive adequate social support. If not, once the child reaches adulthood their relationships with family, friends, co-workers, etc. may be extremely difficult to maintain. Drug and alcohol abuse can…

…is in specific situations (with the unintention of inflicting pain) such as to quell a disturbance, to protect oneself, property, or another person. When a child is physically abused, absence from the abuser results in a relatively quick healing of the physical…

…Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is one of the most harmful forms of child abuse in more extreme cases. MSBP was named for Baron von Munchausen, and 18th century German dignitary known for telling outlandish stories. A perplexing aspect of the syndrome…

…women but an increase in reporting it. On top of violence against women there exists child abuse. Steve Taylor (1991) has drawn our attention to the problem in defining and measuring the level of child abuse, particularly critical of the research methods…

…of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). An unfortunate side effect of this decrease however, has been an increase in the discovery of fatal child abuse masked as SIDS. “Distinguishing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome From Child Abuse Fatalities,” found…

…. Fetal alcohol syndrome includes brain injury, deformities, and growth impairment before and after birth. The nature and extent of damage to the baby depends upon many factors, such as when during pregnancy the woman drank, the pattern of alcohol abuse…

…parents to help the child continue a secure attachment. A few marriages break up because one parent is behaving irresponsibly toward a child and the Jeffery 6 other parent must protect the child from physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. In other families…

…includes arrests for five or more serious offenses or one who commits one or more offenses whose severity is equal to homicide Juvenile crime has increased during the past 30 years because children are being abandoned, abused, mistreated, and ignored. Serious…

…would produce such as a depressed, exhausted host, a strong, angry protector, a scared, hurt child, a helper, and an internal persecutor who blames one or more of the alters for the abuse they have endured. Sometimes patterned or named after the actual…

…also believes that victims of corporal punishment have an increased chance of worse behavior and other problems, including impaired learning and as mentioned before, delinquency; and later in life, depression, child abuse, wife beating, and other crimes…