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  • Maltreatment is what the prevention programs are created to prevent.

    Sacred cows in D.C.'s child services budget Alexandria Richard Wexler 2010

  • The inhumane treatment of detainees in any form is a direct violation of U.S. law, military regulations, and the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (Article 97 prohibits Cruelty and Maltreatment in addition to Article 133 Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and a Gentlemen).

    Matthew Alexander: Music Matters 2009

  • Child Maltreatment 2001, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families.

    Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

  • Maltreatment of prisoners merely to inhibit nonprisoners would seem to me to be non-productive in a netsense.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Conservatives and Torture: 2004

  • Child Maltreatment 2001, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families.

    Born to Believe Andrew Newberg 2006

  • "The U.S. is characteristic of an abused nation in that, even decades after noisily pushing away from Britain, it still maintained close contact with the motherland, took care of it, even giving it financial aid-all the while fearing disapproval even though the parent country is now old, decrepit, and powerless," said Bauffman, a prominent contributor to the fourth edition of the Democratic Symptoms Of Maltreatment handbook, or DSM-IV.

    AMERICA AS THE ABUSED CHILD 2006

  • In a study published last month in Child Maltreatment, researcher Cara Krulewitch of the University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Nursing found that between 1994 and 1998, pregnant women in Maryland were twice as likely to be murdered as non-pregnant women of the same age.

    Why Most Americans Support Husband Notification 2005

  • Maltreatment of prisoners merely to inhibit nonprisoners would seem to me to be non-productive in a netsense.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Conservatives and Torture: 2004

  • Maltreatment of these missionaries led to a war with Annam in 1858, and in 1862 the extreme south of the Annamese Empire -- the province of Cochin -

    The Expansion of Europe Ramsay Muir 1906

  • Maltreatment of Spanish-speakers in the jails also violated the constitution, federal officials alleged.

    ABC News: Top Stories 2011

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