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A ritual is in this paper regarded as a kind of social norm in that it is a manner of behavior traditionally or habitually formed through regular performance in everyday life. Focused on how a ritual (a pattern of repeated performance) to a relatively "new" incidents which seems to need serious response, and how the constructed ritual concerns with the way we think what familial relationship is, or ought to be, this paper addresses how social response to child abuse as constructed through mass media and professional discourse presumes a model of care relationship. Also it argues society has an obligation to care giver because of the difficulty care relationship itself inevitably involves.
