Child Protection Service

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Domestic violence is a major problem that we are facing in our society; statistics estimate that each year in the “Untied States 5.3 million women and 3.2 million men are abused by [there] domestic partners” (Black, Dempsey, Davis 2010, 900). Domestic violence or family violence are defined as “the abuse of power within relationships of the family, trust or dependency that endangers the survival, security or well-being of another person. It can include many forms of abuse... [including] witnessing abuse of others in the family” (Alberta children and youth services 2008, 1). Since family violence is a concern that our society is facing, we are dealt with the issue of how to deal with children who are in homes where violence is taking place. When children are being abuse or neglected child protective services is the agency who steps in to help the child, when women or men are being victims of family/ domestic violence it is other organisations who step in to help the adult being abused escape that relationship. However the two organisations have not been working together in the past, now what happens when a child is living in a situation where there is family/ domestic abuse? Is the responsibility on child protective services to be involved with every case of domestic abuse where a child is present, or should child protective services wait till the child is directly involved in the abuse. This paper is going to look at the two sides of whether child protective services should or should not be involved with domestic abuse cases. Also what the consequence of not being involved might be along with the consequences of being involved with added cases.

To begin I will look at why child protective services should be involved with every ...

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