Analysis Of Chil Child Abuse

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Neglect, fear, wrongdoing, imposturous, mistreating, disgusting are all adjectives that can be used to describe child abuse. In the United States 2.9 million cases were filed; approximately 5 children die per day from this issue. Child abuse has been going on since the beginning of time, and many musicians have taken to writing songs about different viewpoints. Country music artists Big & Rich sing a song, “Holy Water”, from album Horse of a Different Color (2004), of a young girl who has her innocence taken away from her. This song becomes personal when knowing that this song was actually written about lead singer, Big Kenny’s, older sister. Hard rock band Alice Cooper, whom are strong advocates of anti-child abuse released a song, “Dead Babies”, on album Killer (1971) which focuses on the neglect a certain baby suffers from. Both of these songs give insight into the terror, and emotions that come with children who suffer from abusive situations. Issue Discussion …show more content…

There are many forms of child maltreatment, including neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation, and emotional abuse (Child Help).” The three main types of abuse are physical, emotional, and sexual. Abuse can be found in many sorts of ways; most of the time it cannot be seen by human eyes, but nonetheless creates problem for the child. Emotional abuse can be just as traumatizing for a child as physical abuse. It was found that 80% of victims of the age 21 showed some sort of psychological issue later on in life if they had suffered from one of the three types of child abuse early in their childhood. Victims also are 25% more likely for teen pregnancy, and less likely to practice safe sex which increases the spread of sexual transmitted diseases

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