SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Child Poverty, Visible Minority, Quality Assurance
28 May 2016
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Child poverty is a very real issue facing canadians. According to the national council of welfare (2007) there is a higher rate of poverty for: recent immigrants: 33%, indigenous children: 28%, visible minority children: 26% Witnessing family violence can be detrimental to children. Girls are more likely than boys to be victims of sexual offenses committed by family members. Between 2004-2009, there was an increase in the proportion of spousal violence victim reporting that children heard or saw assaults in front of them (from 43-52%) The number of children needing care and protection increased quite dramatically between 1998 and 2003. The canadian incidence study of reported child abuse and neglect (2008) found that there were 85,440 substantiated child maltreatment investigations in canada. The two most substantiated categories of maltreatment were 1) intimate partner violence; and 2) neglect. From colonial times to 19th century children were largely viewed as possessions or objects of parental authority (covell & howe, 2001).
