Casual Analysis
Child Abuse- Casual Analysis
Throughout the world there are plenty of problems within countries and cities. One problem that is happening worldwide is child abuse. When most people think about child abuse they think of a child not being able to eat dinner or a child that doesn’t have clean clothes. This is very stereotypical due to the facts in articles and statistics.
Child abuse in America is seen every day on the news and in newspaper articles. Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect. Every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States involving more than six million (a report can include multiple children). The United States has among the worst records among industrialized nations-losing an average between four and seven children every day to child abuse and neglect. (National, Internet) America has tried to take a stand against child abuse but they cannot catch all abusers in this country. The general statistics are hard to believe since we don’t notice it in our homes or within schools. A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds. It is said that more than four children die every day as a result of child abuse. It is estimated that between fifty to sixty percent of child fatalities due to maltreatment are not recorded as such on death certificates. Approximately eighty percent of children that die from abuse are under the age of four. It is hard to believe that about thirty percent of abused and neglected children will later abuse their own children, continuing the horrible cycle. (National, Internet)
Some people are very sheltered when it comes to understanding what really is happening in the real world. They do not care to read the latest articles of newspapers or watch television to find atrocious news about how a child had accidentally drowned in the parent’s bathtub. In all seriousness, this is a never ending, horrifying problem that is always going to be worldwide. Child abuse
Throughout the world there are plenty of problems within countries and cities. One problem that is happening worldwide is child abuse. When most people think about child abuse they think of a child not being able to eat dinner or a child that doesn’t have clean clothes. This is very stereotypical due to the facts in articles and statistics.
Child abuse in America is seen every day on the news and in newspaper articles. Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect. Every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States involving more than six million (a report can include multiple children). The United States has among the worst records among industrialized nations-losing an average between four and seven children every day to child abuse and neglect. (National, Internet) America has tried to take a stand against child abuse but they cannot catch all abusers in this country. The general statistics are hard to believe since we don’t notice it in our homes or within schools. A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds. It is said that more than four children die every day as a result of child abuse. It is estimated that between fifty to sixty percent of child fatalities due to maltreatment are not recorded as such on death certificates. Approximately eighty percent of children that die from abuse are under the age of four. It is hard to believe that about thirty percent of abused and neglected children will later abuse their own children, continuing the horrible cycle. (National, Internet)
Some people are very sheltered when it comes to understanding what really is happening in the real world. They do not care to read the latest articles of newspapers or watch television to find atrocious news about how a child had accidentally drowned in the parent’s bathtub. In all seriousness, this is a never ending, horrifying problem that is always going to be worldwide. Child abuse