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COVID-19 Crisis, Impacts on Catholic Schools, and Potential Responses. Part I: Developed Countries with Focus on the United States
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Wodon, Quentin – Journal of Catholic Education, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has led to widespread temporary school closures and a deep economic recession. School closures have threatened children's ability to learn and later return to school well prepared. The impact of the economic recession is going to be even more devastating: first for students, but also for the ability of some Catholic schools to…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Catholic Schools
Experience of Sexual Abuse in Childhood and Abortion in Adolescence and Early Adulthood
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Boden, Joseph M.; Fergusson, David M.; Horwood, L. John – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009
Objective: The present study examined the associations between the experience of sexual abuse in childhood (CSA) and the number of abortions in adolescence and early adulthood. Method: A 25-year prospective longitudinal study of the health, development, and adjustment of a birth cohort of 1,265 New Zealand children (630 females). Measures included…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Pregnancy, Foreign Countries, Risk
Risk Assessment of Sexual Offenders for Extended Supervision Orders in New Zealand: Basic Principles and Current Practice
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Vess, James – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2009
A growing number of jurisdictions in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australasia have enacted legislation allowing for special sentencing, civil commitment, and community supervision options for high risk sexual offenders. In New Zealand, one example of this concern for public protection is the Parole (Extended Supervision) Amendment Act…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Correctional Institutions, Mental Health Workers, Supervision
Child Sexual Abuse and Persistence of Risky Sexual Behaviors and Negative Sexual Outcomes over Adulthood: Findings from a Birth Cohort
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van Roode, Thea; Dickson, Nigel; Herbison, Peter; Paul, Charlotte – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009
Objectives: To determine the impact of child sexual abuse (CSA) on adult sexual behaviors and outcomes over three age periods. Methods: A longitudinal study of a birth cohort born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1972/1973 was used. Information on CSA was sought at age 26, and on sexual behaviors and outcomes at ages 21, 26, and 32. Comparisons were…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Adults, Risk
Exposure to Childhood Sexual and Physical Abuse and Adjustment in Early Adulthood
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Fergusson, David M.; Boden, Joseph M.; Horwood, L. John – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2008
Objective: This research examined linkages between exposure to childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and childhood physical punishment/abuse (CPA) and mental health issues in early adulthood. Method: The investigation analyzed data from a birth cohort of over 1,000 New Zealand young adults studied to the age of 25. Results: Exposure to CSA and CPA was…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Punishment, Young Adults
An Unprotected Species? On Teachers as Risky Subjects
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McWilliam, Erica; Jones, Alison – British Educational Research Journal, 2005
This paper explores the issue of teacher vulnerability at a time of "child panic". It does so by first elaborating risk-consciousness as a powerful social and cultural rationality for producing moral climates and organisational identities, and then investigating how this rationality works through the fraught issue of teacher touch.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Abuse, Teacher Student Relationship, Sexual Abuse