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Child Abuse
What is Child Abuse? By definition, child abuse is the deliberate and willful
injury of a child by a caretaker hitting, beating with an object, slamming
against a wall, even killing. It involves active, hostile, aggressive treatment.
The key word in the definition of child abuse is deliberate. Why would
anyone physically harm a child? The physical destruction of a child is the
extreme reaction of parents to the stress of having children. Most people are
not aware of the fact that deliberately hitting a child is considered a felony in
all fifty states. Abuse of children is more common than most people realize.
At least one out of five adult women and one out of every ten adult men
report having been abused in childhood. Recognizing child abuse in its several
forms is a twentieth century phenomenon. Child abuse is also more likely to
be recognized in economically developed countries than in other parts of the
world. Children have been beaten and abandoned for centuries, based
primarily on the belief that children are the property of their parents. By
educating yourself and your children about abuse, you can help prevent it
from happening to your children and better cope with it if it does. (Child 6)
There are four different forms of child abuse. They are physical abuse (child
beating and neglect), sexual abuse, incest, and exploitation (such as child
pornography). Physical abuse occurs when a caretaker deliberately beats the
child. Some examples of 2 physical abuse include burning with a cigarette,
striking a child, and scalding with hot water. According to social agencies,
beatings of children have been multiplying over the past twenty-five years or
so. The increasing number of reports could mean that in recent years, social
workers, health professionals, and other experts have become better able to
recognize cases of mistreatment. Some 60,000 cases of abuse are reported
annually. (Sargo 12) Many...