Domestic Child Abuse

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All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self protection. Domestic abuse is not a unicity incident, it is pernicious problem deeply rooted in our culture. According to American Bar Association (2015),"Domestic violence is sometimes called battering, and it also refers to abusive patterns of power and control in family, household, and intimate partner relationships". Physical abuse is one of the main conflicts that society suffers from, due to its destructive effects which affect the child's life and the society. According to United States government statistics, claim that children expose to domestic children are from 3 to 4 million children between the ages of 3-17 …show more content…

As a result, this can motivate parents to hit and torture their child physically in an unconscious way. Researches claim that when parents are victims of life the children will suffer from domestic abuse. (Hamilton, Jaffe & Campbell, 2013). In addition to this, divorce is a unique risk factor of domestic child abuse. As parents become apart from each other , the care giving emotions start falling down as each of the mother and father starts to think about him or herself in selfishness way and their children becomes emotionally neglected from their parents, therefore the father or the mother are capable of physically abuse their daughters or sons in an un-mercy way revenging from the other partner as the bond between the family drops down. According to Harrison (2008), “Following divorce, violent partners have often been shown to use access to children or legal custody proceedings to control or punish their former partners”. Furthermore, discrimination in the treat among their offspring from parents can arise the physical assault behaviour on the parent. As the parent starts to insult physically his un-beloved kid in an inappropriate …show more content…

Children exposed to domestic violence are likely to develop behavioural issues. One of the mental effects that develop in the abused child is aggressiveness. Aggressiveness can be a highlight in the child attitude in which can create a bullying candidate at school. Besides, depression can over control the physical assaulted child in which often feels helpless and powerless. Depression can also lead to deterioration in the juvenile's health. In addition to this, Psychological effects could arise such as bad nightmares during sleeping , uncomfortable or afraid from their parent, fear from people, guilt, shame, and disturbances in the brain functions. Due to these psychological effects, the youth could either run away from their houses and become homeless people or suicide. According to the National and State Child Abuse and Neglect (2016), prove that their is a clear evidence that domestic physical child abusing is correlated with the young age suicide; Everyday 6 children will commit suicide due to child abuse. Also National Coalition Against domestic Violence, claim that "there is a relationship between intimate partner violence and depression and suicidal behaviour". Moreover, children could be mischievously affected physically from abusing that can lead

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