In A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by David J. Pelzer, and his alcoholic mother are the characters as well as the foster care family. It is the opinion of this author that due to the similar nature of the new laws on the books of most states (California is usually in the vanguard in terms of many standards) to the legal system now many aspects of the intervention would have gone very similarly to the present time. However, experience, training and education have sped the process up. The story occurred in the late 1960s and early 1970s chronicling the abuse and David's journey into the foster care system on March 5, 1973. Ironically, his siblings were not abused. The story occurred in Daly City, California on the Russian river.
He remembers "good years" in the beginning of his life where he remembers feelings of warmth and safety provided by his mother. Evidently, his mother was not always abusive. As described in chapter two of the book, he describes the idyllic life of a typical "Brady Bunch" By age 4, these turned to feelings of fear, starvation and loneliness.
[...] By the 1970s most states had mandatory child abuse reporting laws. These laws aimed at identifying abused children and setting in motion legal procedures to investigate the child's situation and either to provide services for them in their own home or to remove them from their home and place them in a safer environment (Melli, 1998). Historically, the laws and regulations of the present are the children and grandchildren of the laws that were pioneered in the 1960s and 1970s. [...]
[...] Works Cited Crosson-Tower, Cynthia. (2010). Understanding child abuse and neglect. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson-Prentice Hall. Educators' role in child abuse and neglect prevention. (2010). Retrieved 30 July 2010 from http://www.enotalone.com/article/9974.html Melli, Marygold S. (1998). Protecting children in child abuse and neglect proceedings. Retrieved 29 July 2010 from http://parenthood.library.wisc.edu/Melli/Melli.html Overview of family support programs. (1992). Retrieved 27 July 2010 from http://www.fww.org/articles/misc/frc.htm Pelzer, David. (1995). A Child called "it": one child's courage to survive. Deerfield, FL: Health Communications, Inc. [...]
[...] Intervention in child abuse and its complications In A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by David J. Pelzer, and his alcoholic mother are the characters as well as the foster care family. It is the opinion of this author that due to the similar nature of the new laws on the books of most states (California is usually in the vanguard in terms of many standards) to the legal system now many aspects of the intervention would have gone very similarly to the present time. [...]
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