Child Abuse Paper
CHILD ABUSE
SONYA HOLMAN
HH203 MEDICAL LAW & EHTICS
01/21/2015
CHILD ABUSE Child abuse: physical, sexual, emotional, or neglect of children by parents, guardians, or others responsible for the child’s welfare. Physical abuse consists of beating or inappropriately harsh discipline. Sexual abuse includes molestation, incest, rape, prostitution, or use of a child for pornographic purposes. Neglect can be physical in nature, educational, or emotional. Child abuse is a massive, daily and unreported problem that affects millions of children. It manifests itself in many different forms. Child abuse may take place in the home, neighborhoods, at school, or even in legal and child protection institutions. The individuals most often responsible are parents or other adult members of the household. Many cases go unreported for fear of reprisals, fear of the perpetrator, or shame among family members. Many assume that physical and verbal are a part of discipline and ways of socialization. Adults who beat children are not teaching a good lesson or entering a fair fight. Most often, they are in a state in which they are triggered, and they are acting out. In those moments they are not rational. They are provoked, worked-up, agitated, and frustrated. They are reacting out of an emotional storm within them, often triggered by an implicit memory of their own unresolved traumas from childhood. Each year almost 3,500 children die from physical abuse and / or neglect under the age of fifteen. Three million accounts of child abuse are made per year involving about 6 million children. From these statistics, you can see how big a controversy child abuse is and how often it occurs. Child abuse is more common in developed countries than undeveloped countries. The U.S. has 2.4 annual deaths per 100,000 children compared to 1.4 in France, 1 in Japan, and 0.9 in the U.K. Another reason why child abuse occurs is because the parents of the abused child are
SONYA HOLMAN
HH203 MEDICAL LAW & EHTICS
01/21/2015
CHILD ABUSE Child abuse: physical, sexual, emotional, or neglect of children by parents, guardians, or others responsible for the child’s welfare. Physical abuse consists of beating or inappropriately harsh discipline. Sexual abuse includes molestation, incest, rape, prostitution, or use of a child for pornographic purposes. Neglect can be physical in nature, educational, or emotional. Child abuse is a massive, daily and unreported problem that affects millions of children. It manifests itself in many different forms. Child abuse may take place in the home, neighborhoods, at school, or even in legal and child protection institutions. The individuals most often responsible are parents or other adult members of the household. Many cases go unreported for fear of reprisals, fear of the perpetrator, or shame among family members. Many assume that physical and verbal are a part of discipline and ways of socialization. Adults who beat children are not teaching a good lesson or entering a fair fight. Most often, they are in a state in which they are triggered, and they are acting out. In those moments they are not rational. They are provoked, worked-up, agitated, and frustrated. They are reacting out of an emotional storm within them, often triggered by an implicit memory of their own unresolved traumas from childhood. Each year almost 3,500 children die from physical abuse and / or neglect under the age of fifteen. Three million accounts of child abuse are made per year involving about 6 million children. From these statistics, you can see how big a controversy child abuse is and how often it occurs. Child abuse is more common in developed countries than undeveloped countries. The U.S. has 2.4 annual deaths per 100,000 children compared to 1.4 in France, 1 in Japan, and 0.9 in the U.K. Another reason why child abuse occurs is because the parents of the abused child are