Affects of Child Abuse

Children who are physically or psychologically abused, will act more

violently than those who are not abused. It does not matter, what kind of abuse

they are subjected to, it will still have an effect on the child. They will think that

what they saw or heard is normal because they were not taught anything else.

The research I have done, supports my topic on all kinds of levels.

George, T. I. (1999). Children’s Health Vol. 1, New Hampshire Salem Press Inc.

In this book, the author researched that the children who are raised in

abusive homes, tend to have more criminal delinquency, risky, and violent

behavior, and suicide attempts, than other children. This right here backs up the

thesis statement that children who are abused as a child, will end up having a

violent behavior. The author also states that abuse has different effect on boys

and girls. Boys become violent and angry that they were abused, and tend to act

out more. Girls on the other hand, tend to keep t themselves, and withdraw

themselves from friends and family around them. Both boys and girls have these

sort of reactions because they are hurt and embarrassed. Boys are the ones that

usually have a high risk of abusing their children, because they are violent and

let their anger out easily. They have a hard time of controlling their anger at

times. She also says that children who are abused at a young age, are more

aggressive when playing games with their peers. Some as early as two years

old. Children who are abused, form friendships with others who have been

abused. This is not healthy for the child, because hanging out with these friends

encourage more risky or violent behavior. It will give a child problems with

making friends later in life. A lot of children will not like their behavior and not

want to be friends with them, and then the child’s self-esteem will go down and

eventually they will become