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Rape and sexual assault are crimes that involve the use of threats, fear tactics, and/or physical violence to force a child or adolescent to submit to sexual intercourse or to engage in other sexual activity (e.g., oral sex, anal sex).
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Child sexual abuse is the deliberate exposure of minor children to sexual activity. This means a child is forced or talked into sex or sexual activities by another person. Such abuse includes: Oral sex; Pornography; Sexual intercourse; Touching (f...
Source:ADAM
Date:March 14, 2009
The various definitions of rape range from the broad (coercing an individual to engage in any sexual act) to the specific (forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse). The United States Code includes the crime of rape under the more comprehen...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
A family whose interrelationships serve to detract from, rather than promote, the emotional and physical health and well-being of its members. Although this term is used casually in popular culture, health care professionals define dysfunctional f...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Legal term describing the failure of a non-custodial parent to provide support to his or her children according to the terms approved by a court of law. An enduring issue that has received increasing attention since the 1970s, abandonment refers t...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Abandonment is a legal term describing the failure of a non-custodial parent to provide support to his or her children according to the terms approved by a court of law. In common use, abandonment refers to the desertion of a child by a parent.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
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