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This 3 page paper discusses why preventing child maltreatment or any kind depends upon the community as a whole, not just the parents. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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more than just parents to raise a child: it takes an entire community. This paper explores the role the community plays in preventing child maltreatment. Discussion This subject is very
broad, but much of the literature on the subject of "child maltreatment" centers on child abuse, specifically sexual abuse. One source discusses the first feasibility study done in "comprehensive neighborhood
mapping" (CNM) (Nelson, 2004, p. 415). The study was done in public housing in Edinburgh, Scotland, with the aim of promoting "safer neighborhoods in areas of multiple disadvantage" (Nelson, 2004,
p. 415). This points up the fact that often, children who are at risk for maltreatment are in situations where more than one difficulty arises. That is, they may be
neglected by their parents, but they may also have an alcoholic in the family, or be involved in drugs, or family violence, poverty or other such conditions. This study
was only eight months long due to funding problems, but the findings were revealing and "suggested a need to target particular groups of carers for support in keeping their children
safe. When they discussed dangers to children and teenagers, people did not confine the risks to sexual crime, but also identified dangerous physical environments, physical violence, neglect or the risks
of school truancy" (Nelson, 2004, p. 415). In this simple statement, we see that not only do parents have to be involved in order to keep their children safe from
sexual crime, but many other people are also involved. "Physical environments" means things like housing and schools, so we have to have landlords, building inspectors and contractors involved; we also
have to involve teachers, board members and school principals in the effort to stop maltreatment. "Physical violence" is usually thought of in a family context, but can also apply to
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