The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)

Table of contents

Introduction1

Child abuse1

Abuse form2

The child neglect2

Physical violence against children3

Child's chemical abuse3

The child emotional maltreatment4

Multidimensional problem4

Children in a violent family5

Violence against children in child care and protection of plants6

Policies7

Historical relevant statistical information8

The policy analysis questions8

Social Policy8

Eligibility, Services and benefits8

The Problem10

Policy Legislative History11

References12

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)

Introduction

The paper focuses on the Act relating to Child Abuse prevention and treatment (CAPTA), for which it is important to take into account a number of different factors to have a better understanding of the topic. Keeping this in mind, the paper with shed light on topics like child abuse, and its types, so that a better understand occurs, making the paper more relevant.

Child abuse

Child abuse is defined as the World Health Organization WHO, as follows: Child maltreatment includes all the physical and psychological ill-treatment, forms of sexual abuse, neglect or of a commercial or other exploitation, which is about responsibility, trust or power and which has as a real or potential danger to the child's health, development or dignity. Children are defined as Finland has ratified the Child Convention on the Rights of every human being below the age of 18 (Maniglio R. 2009).

Abuse is a phenomenon which occurs most frequently in the child's family and to be the most typical form of domestic of issues. Identifying the history of medical science, for example, it is not very long. In 1946, Caffey described the first "disease state" in which infants appeared in long bone fractures and the mater under the bleeding without the knowledge. Injuries in September, it left open, but the mid-1950s were published reflections on the Caffeyn described injuries were the result of ill-treatment. However, it was in 1962, Kempe et al article "The Battered Child Syndrome" attracted worldwide attention (Wolfe David, 1999).

Child maltreatment is typically the emotional language of the child and alone with their problems. This is probably due to the fact that a small child's distress and helplessness is an adult, and often find it difficult to believe that the face, as Soderholm and Karkola and others have pointed. It is the phenomenon of the prohibition of ill-treatment of the absence of the main problem. "The family maltreatment is often prohibited, and also with children, working people have to either conscious or unconscious tendency to emotionally prohibit mistreatment, or the opportunity. Kempe and his team wrote in 1962 classic work for child abuse as follows: "Many doctors are hard to believe such an event to the possibility and they have a tendency to close the thought of his, even if they were face to face with constituent sitting with the evidence.”Thirty years later, a British pediatrician Chris Hobbs said: "In the case of maltreatment, the child's effective protection of the principal barriers to the further problem of denial in all its forms."

Abuse form

Child maltreatment occurs most typically in their own family and is a part of domestic violence, but can also occur elsewhere, such as child welfare institution, school or clinical setting. Child abuse can be very diverse. The most common forms of elder abuse is neglect ...