Mothers are just as likely to abuse their children as are fathers, and even more likely to abuse them physically. Child-rearing experts attribute some of these cases to the added pressures experienced by single mothers rearing their ...

... abuse, followed by delayed recall. In a recent careful follow- up study of two hundred women with documented childhood histories of sexual abuse, one in three did not remember the abuse twenty years later. What triggers delayed recall ...

... abuse of children — most often by parents — has become a social ill of major proportions. "If you had a disease that affected so many children annually," says Dr. Douglas Besharov, director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse and ...

... ABUSE. The. law. allows. parents. to. use. corporal. punishment—but. not. punishment. likely. to. cause. injury. Instead, she went to Kings County Hospital Center, where she. or Child abuse is a heinous and damaging or crime, with long-term ...

CHILD ABUSE Scope of liability widens State courts continue to get tough with child abusers. An appellate court in California has ruled that a mother who beat her children while she was under the influence of drugs cannot assert her ...

... abuse in a family care home. A community group suspects a licensed child care facility of neglecting children. Child abuse in out-of-home care settings, although extremely infrequent, is an issue of growing public concern. News reports ...

... Abuse Awareness, disagree. Both hope other states will adopt legislation similar to a section of the California penal code that Boland drafted, tolling the statute of limitations when clear evidence of molestation is available. Yes ...

... abuse: The program was among the first in the United States to offer a fellowship in child abuse and neglect; and in 2007, reflecting the advances made in places like the Mayerson Center, the American Board of Pediatrics recognized Child ...

... abuse to demonstrate what happened. Conte disagrees that coloring books program children to allege abuse. The child uses the books to indicate what body part has been touched, he ... ABUSE SCALE Point system for abuse claims The tools.

... abuse in the African-American community is as prevalent as it is taboo. But experts say it's time to break the cycle of abusers preying on victims who suffer in silence and shame. Robin D. Stone is a survivor of sexual child abuse. The ...