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Child Abuse

Child abuse is the intentional unexplainable suffering on a child. There have been many researches on child abuse, and trying to find out why people would do such a horrifying thing to a child. One of many reasons is that the person has psychological problems, or was themselves abused as a child. There are four kinds of child abuse. They can be physical abuse (such as getting beating and neglect), sexual abuse, incest, and exploitation (as child pornography).
Physical abuse can occur with a caretaker or by the parents. It is sad when both parents have to work and they have to find a caretaker for their children, not knowing that, that person might not be in their right mind, and can even hurt the child. Two examples of physical abuse is burning a child with a cigarette, or striking a child, and scalding with hot water. The other form of physical abuse that happens frequently is neglect. Besides the child going through physical abuse it is most likely they are going to go through neglect as well. Neglect occurs when parents or others who are responsible for a child's fail to provide for the child's basic needs in many number of ways. It can be when the parent fails to provide the proper food, clothing, or such as shelter. "Children with histories of maltreatment, such as physical and psychological neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse, are at risk of developing severe psychiatric problems." It is more likely that the child can develop reactive attachment disorder when they go through the trauma as a child, and there was not that much love.
Since the child has gone through so much trauma in their short time of life, they can most likely be unsecured of themselves, or having to much anxiety when it comes to a problem or to the extreme of stressing out, also being depress through out their whole life. There are many cases why it can happen. In some cases it happens without even the person knowing it is happening. Some parents do not believe in...