Substantiation of Sexual Abuse Charges When Parents Dispute Custody or Visitation

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 835-839
Author(s):  
Jan E. Paradise ◽  
Anthony L. Rostain ◽  
Madelaine Nathanson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
Parental Separation ◽  
Consecutive Series ◽  
Abused Children ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Sexual Child Abuse ◽  
Contested Custody

Recent news reports have implied that charges of sexual child abuse during parental separation or divorce are often deliberately falsified. Such a conclusion could be harmful if it biased practitioners faced with such allegations in clinical practice. To investigate this concern, sexual abuse cases in a hospital-based consecutive series and in one author's clinical practice were reviewed. Abuse allegations with and without a concomitant custody or visitation dispute were compared. A custody or visitation dispute occurred in 12 (39%) of 31 sexual abuse complaints lodged against a parent. Allegedly abused children whose parents contested custody or visitation were significantly younger than those for whom custody or visitation was not an issue (5.4 v 7.8 years, P = .02). Sexual abuse allegations were substantiated less frequently when there was concomitant parental conflict (67% v 95%, nonsignificant) but were nevertheless substantiated more than half of the time.

scholarly journals The Effect of Child Abuse on University Student’s Psychological Status A Retrospective study

2018 ◽  
pp. 161-165
Author(s):  
Pary M. Azize ◽  
Farida A. Kadir ◽  
Lavin Luqman Othman
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Retrospective Study ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Pension Plan ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Psychological Status ◽  
Abused Children ◽  
The Public ◽  
Adult Depression

Child abuse commonly underpins adult depression. Child abuse is classified into four categories; physical, sexual, mental and neglect. This paper will study and discuss the rate of depression caused by child abuse at the time of the abuse, the data collected from the first section of the survey, which consisted of two categorical questions. There are two questions that this research will try to answer; have more females experienced one or multiple types of abuse during their childhood compared to male? And have the ones who have experienced abuse suffered from a degree of depression at the time of the abuse. The depression test that consisted of four questions that determined the participant’s depression percentage The result and tables have been duplicated from the Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP), 21 females and 36 males participated in the survey. In total 57 students answered the questions that were sent through email.  73% of the participants said that they were not abused as a child in any of the forms. 27% of the participants have been abused in one or more of the ways as a child., further, 71.4% of the abuse were physical followed by mental and neglect (28%. 28%, respectively). Likely there were zero records of sexual abuse.  Most of the abuse was happening around age 1-5  years and less likely on age 1-5 and above. Females become more depressed than males. 57.2% of the abused children were suffering from anxiety followed by an interruption in their relationship and low self esteem It can be concluded that more female were abused as a child. We can see that the constant (Male) is 49.29 and the female participants are 26.34 more than the constant. This proves that females become more depressed than men. Therefore, much work will need to Protect the children from harm.

scholarly journals Partnership Commitment During a Global Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Margaret R. Frimoth
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Child Survivors ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Working Together

Riane Eisler challenges us to identify and embrace partnership relationships in every aspect of our lives — personal, social, cultural, environmental, and economic. Her trove of written work and public appearances shape a vision of our greater selves working together to achieve more than the sum of our separate lives. Now, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the reality of overwhelming separation, grief, loss, and social distancing begs the question: Is it truly possible to achieve partnership values? Sometimes, we need to step away from news reports and social media to seek comfort in the stories that make positive differences in our lives. In this article, the author shares a story, more than three decades in the making, of a small group of committed volunteers who tackle a most difficult and disturbing form of oppression — child sexual abuse. An annual camp program, first requested by child survivors themselves, is deeply linked to partnership system ideologies. The Victory Over Child Abuse (VOCA) Camp story actualizes partnership values by firmly wrapping them around a tenacious vision of intentionally safe community. When communities commit to partnership systems, healing and non-violence become the norm, social transformation is possible, and children are safe.

scholarly journals The Diagnosis of Child Sexual Abuse

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 295-299
Author(s):  
Arnon Bentovim
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
International Association ◽  
Battered Child Syndrome ◽  
Abused Children ◽  
Battered Child ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Child Syndrome ◽  
Sexually Abused Children

Kempe, in an address to the International Association for Child Abuse and Neglect in 1979, drew the professional communities' attention to ‘the serious plight of sexually abused children’. He described this as the final stage in the communities' recognition of patterns of child abuse. This cycle had commenced with his recognition of ‘The Battered Child Syndrome’ in the early 60s.

Legal Caring: Preventing Retraumatization of Abused Children Through the Caring Nursing Interview Using Roach’s Six Cs

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra E. Gibson,
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Abused Children ◽  
Human Caring

Child abuse, especially sexual abuse, is a harsh, common reality. Nurses are called upon to assist children who may become part of the justice system. The philosophy of Human Caring, by M. Simone Roach, is used as a lens to illuminate the importance of legal caring. Acaring non-traumatic nursing interview with a child that has undergone sexual abuse is presented. Acase study demonstrating the technique of skillful questioning of the child highlights how one U.S. state developed a statute and ordinance to protect the abused child from retraumatization and to maintain legal verbal evidence. Recommendations for successful approaches for legal caring in the initial stages of contact with the victim and family are outlined.

scholarly journals Why Cleveland Still Matters: Connections with a New Era

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Bacon ◽  
Susan Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Sexually Abused ◽  
Abused Children ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Sexually Abused Children

This chapter explores the lasting impact of 1987 Cleveland child abuse crisis in the UK in which 127 children were diagnosed by two paediatricians as having been sexually abused. It highlights how this resulted in tensions, misunderstandings and stresses in the interface between the public and the child protection system, and persistent challenges of creating and sustaining a successful multidisciplinary approach to intervention and protection. It argues that the experience in Cleveland provided unique information about the effects of intervening in child sexual abuse, especially where children are trapped in silence and only come to light by way of a proactive intervention. These children remain difficult to help and the best way of intervening remains contentious. The authors challenge the ethos that leaves sexually abused children vulnerable in the face of investigative and evidential hurdles and suggest ways forward.

Media

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Munnik
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
News Media ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Central Focus

Muslims are a subsidiary concern for religion reporting in Scotland’s news media. If journalists must cover religion, issues pertaining to Christian sectarianism still occupy a central focus, although, as more Scots identify with no religion, news reports take on a memorialising tone, marking religion’s decline. Sometimes these storylines merge, as was the case with the biggest religion story in the news during my research about Muslims and the news media in Scotland: the revelation of the sexual abuse of several priests by Cardinal Keith O’Brien (Deveney, 2013). The dominant Scottish story overall was the preparation for the referendum on independence. Muslims played a humble part in coverage of the second story and no part at all in the first.

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