Child Abuse and Neglect?

Question

I'm doing a project for my Educational Studies 111 class and need your opinion.

Should children that are abused or neglected be taken away from the situation? Or should the abuser (most of the times it's a parent) be put into counseling/classes and stay with the child? And why do you think that?

Your opinion is greatly appreciated :)

Answer 1

the child must always be put into a safe place, which is away from the abuser.

if you were the CPS worker and you didn't take a child out of an abusive situation and one time, that's all it takes, is one time, the parent went too far and the child was injured for life or killed......how would you live with yourself?

besides we owe it to children to be taken out of bad places and to be safe.
sure, the abuser needs help. they should get that help...but they can get help and prove themselves first.

Answer 2

That depends.

Is the information in the initial complaint accurate, or was the complaint made by someone in spite/anger and therefore false? It would be horrible if the worker entered the home with mis-information, looking for 'evidence' to justify the complaint and take the kids.

All parents should be given the benefit of the doubt, offered counselling and support services before yanking children out of their homes.

Now, if the worker shows up and the child(ren) are covered in bruises, there is obvious evidence of abuse, then yes, take the children and place them in care. But don't stop there. Perhaps the abuser is also abusing the other parent. Find out if the other parent also needs help and place them, with the child(ren) in a safe house.

ALWAYS try to re-unite the children with the parent, if that option is possible. If there is a chance the parent will re-offend and is not using the counselling services offered to the best of their ability, then don't return the children until the situation would be safe.

Answer 3

I do not believe any child should be taken from the family, that in itself is the problem. It's traumatic being ripped away from your family and put in a strange place.

I believe the abuser should be taken, charged and given time in a place where the abuser will receive counselling. I also believe that it should be a crime for the other parent * (who's probably been abused as well) to let the abuser see or speak to their children until such time that the abuser has commited themselves (while in detention) to full time counselling.

At the end of their time they should go before a team of psychologists who will determine weather the abuser will abuse again. Then and only then will the abuser be able to see the child / ren again.

Kind of like jail but for abusers who have a chance to change through extensive counselling. Open there eyes to the real reasons they do it.

* the other parent should also get mandetory counselling...just outside of a lock up facilit.

Answer 4

I think that the children ahould be taken away and maybe after some counseling etc that the parent be allowed supervised visits with the children and once things seem to be going alright maybe letting the parent be a parent again but with some sort of intervention where a social worker or something comes by every week or so to check on the kids. I would also make it to where the social worker could just drop in so they could see for themselves what is going on to make sure that the parent isnt just putting on act while the social worker is there.

Answer 5

right here is the way it extremely is defined in social artwork coaching: Chid abuse is an act of comission. You strike a baby, you molest a baby, you burn a baby. baby abuse is usually some thing that the police will arrest for. a baby's injuries or a baby being molested is additionally a criminal. actual abuse can embody some thing as minor as a bruised buttocks from a spanking to a broken bone and burns. Sexual abuse is utilising a baby in any manor for sexual gratification. This includes fondling a baby, raping a baby, making a baby carry out sexual acts, sodomy, making a baby watch pornography, and exposure. overlook is an act of omission. you do no longer furnish some thing for a baby which you extremely choose. this might comprise supervision. which includes if a be certain is incapacitated with the aid of drugs or alcohol around a baby they are neglecting that youngster because of the fact they are able to't furnish. This additionally includes no longer taking a baby to the scientific expert for needed scientific therapy, no longer offering nutrition, having a horribly grimy abode, having horribly grimy toddlers, and so on. touch your close by social provider enterprise, or the police, to record.

Answer 6

Thats a hard one to answer! Ummm I think that the abuser should be put into counceling and the child should stay with other family members until the abuser get better. But usually the abuser goes back to there old ways. So its probably best for the child to go live with a new family.

hard question to answer it depends on what kind of abuse it is. Theres many types: like pysical & Mental.

Good-Luck

Answer 7

i think the child should be removed from the home temporarily and placed with family if possible or foster care if there is nothing else available. during that time, the parent should attend mandatory counseling and parenting classes with some supervised visits and the children should get counselling as well. when the parents have satisfactorily attended classes the children should be returned to them with at least twice weekly surprise visits from authorities while continuing family counseling and parenting classes.

Answer 8

Ok if it is physical abuse I say that they should be taken away.
No children has to be in a bad environment. They do not deserve to be treated as a crap they are flesh they are a piece of angel that god has brought to our life so that we can help them guide them love them make them into someone in the future.

They are the beautiful thing that god has created.
Ok if the kids are being emotionally abuse then I think the best thing to do is for the parents yes to go into counseling I do not say take them away. Cause it hasn't gone through physical abuse but you never know if it can get that way but i say parents go into counseling so that they can help them parent their children. I say as well that not only the parents should go to couseling but children too.

Answer 9

removed ofcourse.our grand daughter was severely abused by a step father.they should only have supervised visits.if the ones who said they should stay was to go thru it with the children later they would change there mind.especially the one who said children should stay no matter what.work with abused kids awhile then tou will change your mind

Answer 10

i think that the child should be stay with the people abusing them and have someone else live with them also and have the abuser go to counseling