Child Abuse
Child Abuse
Even though child abuse is not fully recognized as a criminal act it does effect children both physically and mentally; to prevent child abuse talk with the authorities. “Child abuse is any recent act or failure to act, on the part of an parent or caretaker” (Peterson 8). Child abuse is broken down into four types of abuse. The four types of child abuse are physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. There are a lot of causes of child abuse. Sometimes the effect it has on a child can be permanent. Child abuse can have life long consequences. The child abuse problem gained international awareness when national laws were created in Great Britain in1884 to protect children from cruel treatment, and when the national society for the Prevention of Cruelty to children originated that same year. “child abuse became a powerful social issue in 1980s, generating intense media workloads for child abuse agencies ( Child Abuse in the 1980s 1). There are a lots of ways to prevent this if the abused child or another adult go tell the authorities. The first and most commonly child abuse is physical abuse. “ Physical abuse is non-accidental infliction injury to a child this can also be called battered child syndrome (Child Abuse 2). Physical abuse is also an injury to a child by punching, beating, kicking, biting, or other wise harming the child. This loss control is usually caused by factors that have nothing to with a child, such as a job or personal stresses, loneliness, depression, lack of a support system, psychiatric disorders, or substance abuse. Most times the abuser is a family member or caretaker of the child. Physical abuse also can be scenario which involves a parent or caretaker who loses control and lashes out on a child . Some parents that are stressed can come home and take out their stress on the child. If one sees a child with unexplained marks or bruises on the skin, these are signs of physical abuse and the authorities should
Even though child abuse is not fully recognized as a criminal act it does effect children both physically and mentally; to prevent child abuse talk with the authorities. “Child abuse is any recent act or failure to act, on the part of an parent or caretaker” (Peterson 8). Child abuse is broken down into four types of abuse. The four types of child abuse are physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. There are a lot of causes of child abuse. Sometimes the effect it has on a child can be permanent. Child abuse can have life long consequences. The child abuse problem gained international awareness when national laws were created in Great Britain in1884 to protect children from cruel treatment, and when the national society for the Prevention of Cruelty to children originated that same year. “child abuse became a powerful social issue in 1980s, generating intense media workloads for child abuse agencies ( Child Abuse in the 1980s 1). There are a lots of ways to prevent this if the abused child or another adult go tell the authorities. The first and most commonly child abuse is physical abuse. “ Physical abuse is non-accidental infliction injury to a child this can also be called battered child syndrome (Child Abuse 2). Physical abuse is also an injury to a child by punching, beating, kicking, biting, or other wise harming the child. This loss control is usually caused by factors that have nothing to with a child, such as a job or personal stresses, loneliness, depression, lack of a support system, psychiatric disorders, or substance abuse. Most times the abuser is a family member or caretaker of the child. Physical abuse also can be scenario which involves a parent or caretaker who loses control and lashes out on a child . Some parents that are stressed can come home and take out their stress on the child. If one sees a child with unexplained marks or bruises on the skin, these are signs of physical abuse and the authorities should