The effects of childhood sexual abuse on children’s psychology and employment

This paper presents the effects of childhood sexual abuse of children (male and female) on their lives. The effects of childhood sexual abuse are many; however, this paper particularly looks at the relationship between two effects e.g., psychological and work. The psychological effect is considered as an emotional problems e.g., depression, nightmares, suicidal attempts, fear of men and many more simultaneously the effects on work are inability to look for work, change of job and loss of employment. Moreover, the main objective is to explain the following psychological effects of childhood sexual abuse, which are more likely to impact on their lives comparing to the work (employment). Finally the comparison between level of psychological and employment effects has been tested by the chi-square and Cramer’s V statistical tools. The result shows that there is a strong relationship between high level of psychological effects and employment effects (67%). This paper uses data which has been collected from the secondary sources

Local level politics in Bangladesh: Organization and process

This paper focuses on local level politics and the organization of political parties to examine how the political leaders mobilize their supporters at the local level. The involvement of local people is also analyzed here. Moreover, some aspects of political awareness from within and outside the party are covered in the paper. Here, how local level politics are important in our political arena and what sort of cohesion exists between local level politics and national level politics also focused. To what extent and under what conditions do the political leader in local area, the relation between local and national politics and their contribution to development activities are also focused

Relative deprivation of children in Dhaka City: a case study of Dhanmondi

The study focuses on the construction of a normative deprivation index for Dhanmondi which in the traditions of Townsend (1979), Mack and Lansley (1985, 1992), Halleröd (1994) and Gordon et al (2000), underscores items the lack of which would constitute poverty. However, unlike these studies, the present study does not measure the head count ratio but explores the dynamics of this normative construction of deprivation in terms of demographic and socioeconomic variables. The data for this study come from a sample survey of 61 respondents, 29 males and 32 females, from Dhanmondi in 2008. The normative deprivation index for Dhanmondi in 2008 shows that 18 items out of 23 appear significant at the level of à=.01 in inter-item total correlation and more than 50 per cent of respondents perceive their absence as constituting poverty. More than 90 per cent respondents agree on the importance of 8 items: (i) three meals a day, (ii) Meatfish or vegetarian equivalent at least once a day , (in) Warm/properly fitted shoes; (iv) All required school uniform, (v) Sufficient baby milk (0-10), (vi) Toys (0-10) and (vii) At least 4 pairs of trousers (11-17) viii) Play with peer group at least once a week

'Millennium Development Goal of improving maternal health in Bangladesh: a review of concepts

Bangladesh is one of the signatories to the Millennium Declaration 2000, of which, improving maternal health is one of eight goals. Along with the global targets of reducing maternal mortality rate by three quarters between 1990 and 2015, Bangladesh has set some additional targets for achieving the goal by 2015. The main objective of this paper is to make an extensive review on selected studies on maternal mortality, with particular reference to: (1) historical and present interventions to avert maternal mortality, and (2) the six targets of MDG Five set for Bangladesh. A conceptual framework has been developed where the global target is integrated into the targets set by Bangladesh. This paper concludes maternal mortality is a multifaceted and broad based issue to be considered. The inclusion of additional targets in MDG Five for Bangladesh also reflects this complex reality of maternal mortality

Relative deprivation of children in Dhaka City: a case study of Dhanmondi

The study looks at the relative deprivation of children using a normative deprivation index which has developed by Townsend (1979), Mack and Lansley (1985, 1992), Hallerod (1994) and Gordon et al. (2000). The index shows the traditions of underscores items the lack of which would constitute poverty eventually. Unlike these studies, the present study does not measure the head count ratio rather exploring the dynamics of this normative construction of deprivation in terms of demographic and socio-economic variables. The data for this study come from a sample survey of 61 respondents, 29 males and 32 females, from Dhanmondi in 2008. The normative deprivation index for Dhanmondi shows that 18 items out of 23 appear significant at the level of alpha=.01 in inter-item total correlation and more than 50 percent of respondents perceive their absence as constituting poverty. More than 90 percent respondents agree on the importance of 8 items: (i) three meals a day, (ii) Meat, fish or vegetarian equivalent at least once a day, (iii) Warm/properly fitted shoes; (iv) All required school uniform, (v) Sufficient baby milk (0-10), (vi) Toys (0-10) and (vii) At least 4 pairs of trousers (11-17) viii) Play with peer group at least once a week