Child Abuse Outline

• Delayed development
• Obesity and fluctuations of weight
• Speech disorders
• Bed wetting or wetting pants
• Health problems like ulcers
• Presence of unusual habits like rocking, sucking or biting
• Overly defensive or compliant
• Learning disabilities
• Suicidal thoughts and behaviours
• Inappropriate behaviour for age
• Destructive or anti social behaviours like cheating, lying, stealing and other forms of violence
• Sleep disorders
• Presence of anxieties and phobias
• Withdrawn
• Extreme emotions and aggression
Signs of emotional abuse in parent or caregiver
• Mental illness or alcohol and substance abuse that has not been treated
• History of abuse or violence
• Disrespectful of authority
• Unhealthy and bad relationships with other

• 28.3% adults reported to be physically abused in their childhood days.
• 20.7% adults reported to be sexually abused in their childhood days.
• 10.6% adults reported to be emotionally abused in their childhood days.
• There were 25,000 to 50,000 children in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, that had been abandoned because of witchcraft accusations.
• The Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria had 15,000 children accused as

75% of these reported cases were abused by their own parents. However, due to South Korean culture, this forceful parenting is not seen as abuse and may only be deemed as a parents’ duty to discipline the child. This kind of parenting is also evident in other Asian cultures such as China, Japan, Vietnam and Singapore.
• There are approximately 215 million children worldwide who works, and many of them as full-time workers according to the International Labour Organization.
• Many view child marriage as an abuse towards the child/children being married even before they reached puberty. However, this is common in many traditions such as in some parts of Asia and Africa. India plays the highest contributor to child brides compared to any nations in the world at 40%. Meanwhile, the country with the highest rate of child marriage is Niger at 75%, followed closely by Central African Republic and Chad at 68%, and Bangladesh at 66%.
• Approximately 5 children die daily due to child abuse.
• 82.2% of the person responsible for child abuse is between the ages 18-44, while the remaining 39.6% is between 25-34 years old.
• 90% of children being abused know the abuser in some way, and 68% of these sexually abused children were abused by their own family