Child Abuse

This paper outlines a research proposal to determine whether the use of a certain kind of anti-child abuse training in high school - using a form of "Think It Over" dolls - can effectively reduce the incidence of child abuse. This study is thus necessarily a longitudinal one and may (because of the complexity of the issue of child abuse) be less conclusive than one might like. However, an intervention strategy that reduces child abuse even to a small degree would be worth considering given the stakes involved.

Children are neglected and abused everyday in Virginia. This should in no way surprise us: Child neglect and abuse have been with us for as long as there have been human societies. Indeed, child abus

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, but it can happen at any age. Parents who imagine that taking care of an infant - or even an older child - is all a matter of reading favorite childhood stories while a dewy-eyed baby gurgles happily between six-hour naps are unlikely to be prepared for the reality of a screaming, colicky baby. In addition to the age of the caregiver, there are a number of other factors that tend to give rise to unrealistic expectations about the nature of parenting. Primary among these (aside from parents who are young, in either their teens or early twenties) is isolation. This isolation can be caused by a number of different factors. For example, a single mother living on a farm distant from her closest neighbor; a teenage mother living in dense, public urban housing who is alone in a crowded apartment all day while her parents are at work and her friends are at school can be just as isolated. Domestic violence is also a major cause of isolation; the fact that domestic violence is so often accompanied by child abuse reflects the fact that violence can often produce a sort of contagion in which an individual who is physically abused (for example, a wife who is beaten by her husband) in turn abuses those who have even less power than she d
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