Mental health articles

Remove the Offender from the Victim’s Home Removing the offender instead of the victim from the home may be one of the most difficult policy changes because it conflicts with society’s presumption that the accused is innocent until proven guilty. Only with sufficient evidence of abuse can an alleged offender be charged with a crime. […]

Alternative care is foster care or adoption In the current social context children are not removed from parents lightly. The removal of a child into care is a difficult decision that requires thoughtful consideration of the effect of separation on the infant vis-a-vis careful assessment of the damaging physical, psychological and developmental impacts on the […]

How to access to ante-natal care Even when good ante-natal care is available, adolescents are less likely than older pregnant women to use it, especially in the first half of the pregnancy. Obstacles include: • the teenager’s inability to prioritise her health care • the sense of omnipotence that is an integral part of adolescence: […]

Male and female sex differentiation Biological sex may be defined on many levels—ex-determining genes, sex chromosomes, HY sex-determining antigen, gonads, hormones, internal reproductive structures or external genitalia. In some infants, sex cannot be determined as exclusively male or female and complex decisions must be made about sex assignment and surgical intervention. Genetic sex is established […]