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Child Abuse

The topic I would choose is child abuse, "every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States" (O'Meara, Fedderson, 1959). I would want to make a machine that was able to detect every type of abuse a child can endure. It would be set up right when they walk into their classroom they would have to get passed this detection in order to enter the classroom. With this machine you can either set the child inside a basket and go through or if they are  able to walk they can just walk through. There would be a meter at the top allowing the caregiver to see all the levels of abuse a child might have been affected by. 
I believe this machine will defiantly have a positive impact or contribution toward children/caregivers. and families. It will allow us not to miss any type of abuse that might be going on and save lives in the process. Child abuse is going unnoticed and unreported because we aren't educated,"there are many forms of child maltreatment, including neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation and emotional abuse" (O'Meara, Fedderson, 1959).
References 
O'Meara, S., & Fedderson, Y. (1959). The Issue of Child Abuse. Child Help. Retrieved from https://www.childhelp.org/child-abuse/

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  1. AnonymousNovember 19, 2017 at 9:37 AM

    I remember having to do body checks everyday when I worked in Head Start. Child abuse is very serious and affects our little babies sometimes for their entire life, I love your idea of having a machine that will tell us what they have been through.
    It prepares us as teachers on how the child my react to certain things.

    -Samantha

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