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…by many in recent decades. This is largely, but not entirely, due to the frequent association with this type of punishment and child abuse. Corporal punishment is using force to cause children to experience pain without injury to modify or correct…

…at $144.1 billion dollars annually. Every man, woman and child in America pays nearly $1,000 a year to cover the costs of unnecessary health care, auto accidents, crime and lost of productivity resulting from alcohol abuse. Alcohol deaths account…

…abnormalities can have lasting affects on children’s aggressiveness (Breen & Altepeter, 1990). Child abuse, in particular, has been targeted as a likely predecessor for childhood psychopathologies, and especially for that of conduct disorder. According to Steiner…

…not to question their children directly but to send their children to Social Welfare to be interviewed. Later on the welfare diagnosed some other children which showed positive for child abuse. Peter Ellis was then arrested. Another case is the "Kelly…

…Miss is the main beneficiary of Mr. Punch’s physical and sexual abuse, representing man’s continued abuse of women. She is the American woman as eternal child, expected only to giggle and smile, never expressing ideas or opinions. Inga (Polly) is forced…

…reasons why. There are many reasons, ranging from cheating to lack of sex to abuse, that make people want to breakup . One reason why couples might break up is money or a lack of money. If one person in a relationship is always paying for everything…

…Eveline James Joyce’s “Eveline” describes a story of a confused girl that is stuck in a situation that could change her life forever. Eveline, suppressed by her mother’s deathbed wishes, is mentally subdued by her abusive surroundings, making…

…personality. While they grow, teens now have to filter images of mass-media violence, range, substance abuse and sexuality. This generation of teens has seen and heard it all, but they have not acquired the maturity to process it in their own lives. Juvenile…

…an experiment that's results showed that "in adulthood, the primary negative consequence of being the child of an alcohol abuser is having one's own alcohol problems". What this means is that a large and growing number of alcoholics today are the result of being…

…the different types of torture that would be forced upon you? This is the life that David Pelzer, the author of the autobiography, A Child Called “It”, lived. A Child Called “It” is an amazingly touching story about one child’s struggle with abuse, one that is said…