TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a sentence in the Japanese language and your task is to convert it into the English language. In translation, keep numbers as it is and make it sentence case (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and noun).
PROBLEM: 「私はこれ自体、私たちが取り組んでいる児童虐待のレベルについて一定の基準となるものだと思う。」

SOLUTION: "I think this itself puts some measure of perspective on the level of child abuse we are dealing with."

PROBLEM: 有権者として、私に関心があるのは道徳的な問題だ。

SOLUTION: What concerns me more, as a voter, is the ethical issue.

PROBLEM: 彼はこのホームに約1年ほど居た。

SOLUTION:
He had been at the home for about a year.