CHILD ABUSE

                     Child Abuse

• Child abuse is defined as intentional acts that result in physical or emotional that harming the children. Nowadays, we hear about child abuse, and many children are abused yearly. Many people don't realize the many different forms of abuse. They included physical, emotional, neglect, and sexual abuse.

• First of all, let’s go to physical abuse. Physical abuse is a physical injury that can cause a result such as punching, beating, kicking, or otherwise harming children. Such injury is considered abuse regardless of whether the caretaker intended to hurt the children. Forms of physical abuse included deliberate acts of violence that can injure or sometimes kill the children. Signs of the abuse like broken bones and burn marks on the child’s body.

• Next, let’s proceed to the emotional abuse. Emotional abuse is a behavior pattern that impairs a child’s emotional development. This may include constant criticism, threats, or rejection as well as withholding love, support, and love. Emotional abuse can be difficult to pin down because there are no physical signs to look for. Emotional abuse generally occurs when the yelling and anger go too far or when a parent constantly threatens or dismissed a child until a child’s feelings are broken.

• After that, we go to neglect. Neglect is defined as a type of maltreatment that refers to the failure to provide needed age-appropriate age. Neglect can be in physical and education. Physical neglect included not providing adequate food or clothing, appropriate medical care, and proper weather protection such as protection from rain and heat from the sun. While educational neglect included failure to provide appropriate schooling or special educational needs and allowing excessive truancies.  

• Last but not least, we proceed to sexual abuse. Sexual means the involuntary of development of immature children or adolescents in sexual activities. Sexual abuse is any misuse of children for sexual pleasure or gratification. This sexual abuse included activities by parents or caretakers such as rape and exploitation through prostitution or the production of pornographic materials.

• We can therefore conclude that prevention is better than cure. Child abuse leads to many bad effects not only for the children that are being abused but also for the person who abuses the children. We should prevent it from getting worse as the children today will be a leader for tomorrow.

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