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Child Abuse

Child abuse

Child abuse has become an escalating phenomenon that is hurting children from every walk of life, and it seems to be happening with a more intense brutality, now more than ever, children need our help and loving homes to grow in. unfortunately child abuse is on the rise. Since 1963 there have been over 150,000 victims of child abuse reported. In 2000 there were over 2.8 million reports of child abuse involving about 5 million children. (Rein pg13) Child abuse isn’t just physical it also can be verbal, and neglect of a child or children.
Child abuse is not just something that goes away once others find out the abuse been going on or once the child gets taking out of that situation. A child lives with those events that happen to them forever and some just try to suppress the memories of it ever happening to them. But memory researchers do not agree, saying that children who have suffered serious psychological trauma do not repress the memories: rather they can’t forget it. The consequences can be extremely harsh and painful. Child abuse victims may go through a healing process, but there is a great chance they may never actually heal from the abuse they went through. Child abuse victims could go to counseling and even take medication but no amount of medication or counseling can make them forget what happened to them, but not all the time. The overall impact of physical, verbal, and sexual abuse of children has deep emotional and fiscal consequences for society. The devastating effects of child abuse reach across all areas of our lives, touching families and local communities, health care providers, the criminal justice system, welfare programs, and educational institutions. The affects of child abuse can lead to other incidents while the child is growing from alcohol and substance abuse to domestic violence.. The child’s sense that what he or she is doing is wrong may be exacerbated by the abusers insistence on secrecy, which is usually ensured by...