Child abuse is the physical or psychological mistreatment of children. It is any act of commission or omission by a parent or other caregiver that results in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child. It affects children at any age and can leave both physical and emotion
al scars to last a lifetime. Whether the abuse is physical, emotional, sexual, or neglect, the scars can be deep and long-lasting, often leading to future child abuse. Victims of child abuse often grow up to believe that they have no value and that they cannot affect the world around them with good behavior. They become at risk of developing psychiatric problems or a disorganized attatchment style, which may lead to a number of developmental problems, including dissocative symptoms, anxiety, depression, and acting-out symptoms.
Child abuse happens in many different ways, but the result is the same- serious physical or emotional harm. Physical or sexual abuse may be the most obvious types of abuse, since they often leave evidence behind. However, emotional abuse and neglect are serious types of child abuse that are often more subtle and difficult to spot. Child neglect is the most common type of child abuse.Child Abuse Can Be..
- physical - shaking, hitting, beating, burning, or biting a child.
- emotional - constantly blaming or putting down a child; excessive yelling, shaming.
- sexual - incest, any forced sexual activity, exposure to sexual stimulation not appropriate for the child's age.
- neglect - a pattern of failure to provide for the child's physical needs, such as food, clothing, shelter, and medical care; a pattern of failure to provide for the child's emotional needs, such as affection, attention, and supervision.
Signs of Child Abuse in The Child
- Shows sudden changes in behavior or school performance.
- Has not received help for physical or medical problems brought to the parents' attention.
- Has learning problems (or difficulty concentrating) that cannot be attributed to specific physical or psychological causes.
- Is always watchful, as though preparing for something bad to happen.
- Lacks adult supervision.
- Is overly compliant, passive, or withdrawn.
- Comes to school or other activities early, stays late, and does not want to go home.
Signs of Child Abuse in The Parent
Signs of Child Abuse in The Parent and Child
- Rarely touch or look at each other.
- Consider their relationship entirely negative.
- State that they do not like each other.
Each week, child protective services agencies throughout the United States receive more than 50,000 reports of suspected child abuse or neglect. In 2002, 2.6 million reports concerning the welfare of approximately 4.5 million children were made. In approximately two-thirds of these cases, the information provided in the report was sufficient to prompt an assessment or investigation. As a result of these investigations, approximately 896,000 children were found to have been victims of abuse or neglect—an average of more than 2,450 children per day. That's a disturbingly large amount of children..
Many people are reluctant to get involved in other families’ lives. However, by reporting, you can make a tremendous difference in the life of a child and the child’s family, especially if you help stop the abuse early. To get help, call 1-800-4-A-CHILD or visit http://www.childhelp.org/.Remember, it shouldn't hurt to be a child..
Justine, child abuse is one of the more disturbing forms of abuses out of all the forms on our blog. Not only does child abuse include all of the forms of abuses covered in previous posts, but it also covers even more. The main reason child abuse is so disturbing is that a parent is abusing their child, what they created and put on this earth. For a parent to treat their child this way is beyond unacceptable it’s just flat-out wrong in every single aspect. It was interesting to read about how child abuse can occur in many forms such as physical, emotional, sexual, and neglectful abuse. What all these forms of abuse have in common is that they all leave emotional and physical scars. These scars are ever lasting and really affect the rest of the child’s life. I also found useful the signs of child abuse in the parent. I found it to be most useful because it can inform outsiders on how to tell if a parent is abusing their child and can lead to more of these child abusers put in jail. Overall I found this post to be very useful and informing on the topic being discussed.
ReplyDeleteWhen adults have children, the general idea is to love them to the fullest extent. But sometimes it always doesn't work out that way. Many parents get frustrated with their kids and sometimes without thinking they hit them to make them stop doing things wrong. These parents have no right what so ever to lay any hands on their children. Abusing a child physically, mentally, verbally, sexually, emotionally, being neglectful and/or exposing them to things they should not see or be involved in is damaging the youth of today. Child Abuse is a horrible, unwarranted, cruel, evil, wrong, and awful thing, and anyone guilty of doing it needs a wake-up call from God. If you ever suspect someone is getting abused, report it, even anonymously if you have to. You could end up saving someone's safety and happiness or more importantly a life. So do the right thing and help prevent Child Abuse in any way that you can.
ReplyDeleteI believe that child abuse is the perfect end to our blog. Not only does it leave incredible scars, it incorporates each different type of abuse. Child abuse also includes emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, etc. It is also a topic that leaves many people feeling very uneasy. Personally, I find child abuse to be an extremely awful topic; but one that must become known among more individuals. Child abuse is a subject on its own. I don't think that I will ever truly understand reasons for child abuse. These reasons can be classified and stated, but I will never find appropriate reasoning for such a terrible thing. There is no valid reasoning for ruining the imagination of a developing mind. Children are fragile and beautiful things; they are gifts. A person that does not see this is blind to the greatest beauty on Earth; for that, I give them all my sympathy. To destroy something that you created is unacceptable and weak. Life is not all "cookies and cream", but in the eyes of a child, its O.K. to dream.
ReplyDeleteThis was the hardest post to read and do not get me wrong, this post was amazing, it is just the hardest to read about. This is the one abuse that sums up all the abuses put into one. Child abuse is the one abuse that get's me so mad. Why do we need to abuse kids? When I hear about this, I tense up right away and get so mad. I can not state how many times how much this gets me mad. To see everything so horrible, all happen to one person and of all people, for it to be a child. Honestly, if someone was to ask me to name something so bad, this is what I would name. Yes, I understand kids can be loud and annoying, but they are growing up. That does not give us the right to abuse them in any sort. This is where all abuse starts too. When a child is verbally abused it is more then likely when he or she grows up they will either verbally abuse someone, or even worse, take it to the next level. Children only learn what we teach them, and if this is what we teach them, then this is what they learn.
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