Child Abuse In The State Of Alaska
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Beat them, starve them, neglect them and physically and mentally scar them for the rest of their life. How can we as a society stand by and watch our children be beaten, verbally and sexually abused, or killed because they were crying or something as innocent and natural as that. Children should not be punished for being curious, displaying emotions through sounds or being who they are, children.
"Alaska has four times the national average of child neglect and abuse states Christine Lawton" (personal communication, April12, 2004.) She states further that for a sizable impact to be made on the reduction of child abuse, the State of Alaska's Health and Human services needs not only to hire more competent social workers, but to make the penalty for abusing children much more rigid. The most recent example was an article in the Letters to the Editor section of the Anchorage Daily News which read, "There is a larger concern for the protection of animals in the state than there is for the welfare of our children. A few months back couple in Kenai was sentenced to six years in prison for the neglect of a dozen dogs, none of which perished. However, an Anchorage man was sentenced to three years in prison for giving his child multiple skull fractures and upon further examination, there was evidence of previous leg fractures." Lawton,C.(September, 2003) The line has to be drawn.
A higher level of involvement needs to be formed in the community. Know what some of the signs and indicators of child abuse are. Three of the most viscous and heinous are neglect, sexual abuse and physical abuse.
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Neglect is, according to Lane Veltkamp and Thomas Miller (1994), leaving a child unsupervised or failing to provide the child with sufficient direction or management.
There is lack of medical or dental care such as vision problems,...
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