Child Abuse
What are some types of child abuse and how has it changed over the last 100 years and what effects does it have on a child? There are many types of child abuse such as physical, emotional, sexual, and neglect each one of these types of abuse have a lasting effect during and after that will emotionally scar a child's life for ever. The amount of child abuse is staggering to think about let alone deal with.
Physical abuse, which is 19% of all substantiated cases of child abuse, it is the most visible form of abuse and may be defined as an act, which results in a non-accidental trauma or physical injury. Inflicted physical injury most often represents unreasonable, severe corporal punishment or unjustifiable punishment. Physical abuse occurs in many different forms, it involves hitting, kicking, of a child with fists or feet or other objects; such as belts, sticks, brooms, bats. Another form of physical abuse is pouring of hot water or hot beverage on a child's body, holding a child's head under the water of toilet bowl, throwing a child against the wall, shaking a child with extreme force causing a child to sustain severe brain damage (this is extremely destructive in infants and small children). Indications of child abuse are bruises, burns, lacerations and abrasions, skeletal injuries, head injuries, and internal injuries. Experts note that for every case of child abuse reported there are hundred that are not, it is not known precisely how many children die from physical abuse at the hands of an adult, but what is known is that death among children is steadily rising.
Sexual abuse is 10% of all sustained cases of child abuse. Sexual abuse is any misuse of a child for sexual pleasure or gratification. Sexual abuse has the potential to interfere with a child's normal healthy development both emotionally and physically. Sexual abused children often experience severe emotional disturbance from their own feelings of guilt and shame, as well as the...
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