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Child abuse- A Child Called It. In American society today we fail to address
several issues that need to be addressed. Unfortunately ...
... The book is 184 pages. A Child Called It is a memoir of David Pelzer, who
experienced one of California?s worse cases of child abuse. ...
... It? A Child Called ?It? is the story of a young boy who, in order to survive,
must triumph over the physical, emotional, and medical abuse created by his ...
... It? A Child Called ?It? is the story of a young boy who, in order to survive,
must triumph over the physical, emotional, and medical abuse created by his ...
A child Called it. ... is about the author David Pelzer?s life story as a child growing
up ... The abuse started when he was around the age of 5 and got progressively ...
Submitted by briteblue17 on April 8, 2005
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In American society today we fail to address several issues that need to be addressed. Unfortunately, child abuse is one of the major issues that our country is plagued with, yet we neglect to bring this to the attention of the entire nation. It is often over looked because everyone has a different view of what exactly defines child abuse. The International Child Abuse Network (ICAN) uses four basis catigories to docunment the child abuse cases. They are: emotional abuse, neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse. I will be describing the first three.
Emotional Abuse, (also known as: Verbal abuse, mental abuse, and psychological cruelty) includes acts or the failures to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or could cause serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional or mental disorders. This can include parents and/or caretakers using extreme or bizarre forms of punishment, such as the child being confined in a closet or dark room, being tied to a chair for long periods of time, or threatening or terrorizing a young mind. Less severe acts, but no less damaging is overly negative criticism or rejecting treatment, using degrading terms to describe the child, constant victimizing or blaming the child for situations.
Neglect (the failure to provide for the child’s basic needs) can be physical, educational, or emotional. Physical neglect can include not providing adequate food, clothing, appropriate medical care, supervision, or proper weather protection (heating or coats) to the child. Educational neglect can include failure to provide appropriate schooling or special educational needs, allowing excessive truancies, to the child. Psychological neglect is the lack of any emotional support and love, never attending to the child, spousal abuse, or drug and alcohol abuse including allowing the child to participate in drug and alcohol use.
Physical abuse is to cause or inflict physical injury upon the child. This may include, burning,...
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