Reauthorization of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, Hearing Held in New York, NY, April 3, 1987

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Página 7 - Child abuse is an ugly symptom of our times but it is more than that, it is extricably linked with unbearable stress, with impossible living conditions, with material and spiritual poverty, with distorted values, disrespect for human life, and with drug addiction, alcoholism, assaults, armed robberies, murders and the other ills in the midst of which we live. Unfortunately, in...
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Página 30 - Thank you for your cooperation and I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.
Página 48 - States for grants to local public agencies and nonprofit private organizations to prevent incidents of family violence and to provide immediate shelter and related assistance to victims of family violence. States must give special emphasis to the support of community-based projects of demonstrated effectiveness carried out by nonprofit private organizations, particularly those projects where the primary purpose is to operate shelters for victims of family violence, and those which provide counseling,...
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