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Recruits at Zimbabwe's notorious youth camps live in substandard barracks, get very little food and may be at risk of sexual abuse,
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Trauma experienced by specialists dealing with abused children was one of several challenges to adequate treatment of child abuse,
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We remember them because we would like the youth gathered here today and their comrades throughout our country, to follow their example of unwavering commitment, as they confront the modern day challenges of poverty and unemployment, alcohol and drug abuse,
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We have to fight rape and wife-beating and child abuse,
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The department's director for mental health and substance abuse,
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Nor have I forgotten how Cleon treated me because of my comedy last year; he dragged me before the Senate and there he uttered endless slanders against me; it was a tempest of abuse,
The Acharnians 2000
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As part of my Administration's ongoing efforts to protect our children from the effects of alcohol and other substance abuse,
Proclamation On Child Health Day Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1998
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Singling out men as the main perpetrators of abuse,
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Far too many of our children are succumbing to the weight of poverty and the modern scourges brought on by substance abuse,
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Then _curs'd_ are those who that _fair Name_ abuse,
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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