Child abuse is the physical maltreatment or sexual molestation of a child. This ferocious act is happening to thousands of children behind closed doors all around the world. The abusers feel a sense of power when participating in the abuse but show nothing but weakness by using their violence against the innocence of a child. It is a violent, disturbing, and vicious criminal act that often leads to terrible outcomes including academic, criminal, emotional, and physical problems. These problems can occur as long term or short term effects.
Chikpe Winfred Okeke states, “Abusive and neglectful families, because of poverty, tend to ignore their children's educational needs and requirements.” When these needs and requirements are ignored, the children are not able to reach their full potential in school, which could not only lead to acting out but stand in their way of achieving academic success. Although some abuse victims may be able to surpass this statistic and succeed in their education without the help of their abusers, some are not that lucky. Studies show that kids from non-abusive homes have a better chance at academic success as opposed to the victims of abuse. Okeke says, “The analyzed data revealed that the non-abused and non-neglected children performed much better in all four academic subjects of English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.” Therefore, there is no doubt that abuse has an effect on a child’s education. It is not only cruel to abuse your child, but to deprive them of the education that molds them into the humans they are, is just blatantly selfish. Every individual should have the chance to learn, experience, and prosper from the education they are provided. Although this effect is indeed, h...
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...social behavior” that children who sustain physical abuse grow up with criminal and antisocial behaviors. Just like the brother children who are abused have a high chance of becoming a violent parent themselves. Not only the child abuse destroys the future for one generation but many more to come because the cycle of violence stays with the parents that were abused.
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Child abuse is an issue in every state, every country, worldwide. There is no place that is immune to child abuse. This being stated they need better policies in place regarding the education on child abuse. Many people have many different opinions on how to lessen the amount of child abuse that goes on in this country, however many of them focus on stricter punishment for the abuser’s (Hmurovich, 2009). However, they know that stricter punishment will not lessen the amount of child abuse; it would truly have little to no impact on...
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Each year approximately 4.8 million acts of physical or sexual aggression are perpetrated against women while 2.9 million physically aggressive acts are perpetrated against men within the United States (Edleson, Ellerton, Seagren, Kirchberg, Schmidt & Ambrose, 2007). Many of these incidents take place in the presences of children, which make these figures even more disturbing (Evans, Davies & DiLillo, 2008). Research indicates that 40.2% of United States battered women responding in national surveys state that their children have witnessed one or more abusive events (Edleson et al., 2007). Overall 66% of research samples regarding childhood exposure to domestic violence reported to having direct exposure to the abuse (Barnett, Miller-Perrin & Perrin, 2011).
Child abuse can present itself in various forms throughout the country, however the one major defining part of child abuse it that cannot be stopped or cured with medication, exercise, or nutrition. Unlike typical medical conditions, child abuse is passed through learned behaviors and can have effects on family members, friends, employees. According to the Child Help Foundation, child abuse is defined “when a parent or caregiver, whether through action or failing to act, causes injury, death, emotional harm or risk of serious harm to a child...including neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation and emotional abuse” (“The Issue of Child Abuse”, 2016). Child abuse has detrimental effects on a person’s later life as an adult, including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and obesity. This is a public health problem because these factors can be passed down through genetics; for example, children who have obese parents are more likely to be obese themselves. Noted by Woolf, injuries such as child abuse can lead to poor self-control, limited social skills, lack of perseverance, resilience, and antisocial behavior (Woolf 2013). Abused children grow up no longer in the
“Domestic violence is a violent confrontation between family or household members involving physical harm, sexual assault, or fear of physical harm” (Stewart & Croudep, 1998-2012). In most places, domestic violence is looked at as one of the higher priorities when trying to stop crime. Domestic violence cases are thought to be influenced by the use of alcohol, drugs, stress or anger, but in reality, they are just learned behaviors by the batterer. These habits can be stopped as long as one seeks help (Stewart & Croudep, 1998-2012). For instance, a child is brought up in a household that is constantly involved in criminal acts.
Child maltreatment can affect any child, usually aged 0-18, and it occurs across socioeconomic, religious, ethnic or even educational backgrounds. Arguably, child abuse and neglect is a violation of basic human rights of a child resulting from social, familial, psychological and economic factors (Kiran, 2011). Familial factors include lack of support, poverty, single parenthood, and domestic violence among others, (McCoy and Keen, 2009). The common types of child maltreatment include physical abuse, emotional maltreatment, neglect, and sexual abuse among others. Abuse and neglect can lead to a variety of impacts on children and young people such as physical, behavioral as well as psychological consequences which will affect the development and growth of the child either positively or negatively based on the environment and agency. More so, emotional, cognitive and physical developmental impacts from child neglect in the early stages of childhood can be carried on into adulthood. Research findings reveal that the experience of maltreatment can cause major long-term consequences on all aspects of a child’s health, growth as well as intellectual development and mental wellbeing, and these effects can impair their functioning as adults. Commonly, the act of abuse/ or neglect toward a child affects the child’s physical, behavioral development and growth, which can be positive or negative, depending on the child’s environment and agency. Another way to understand how the act has affected the child is to look at the child for who they are, and interviewing and observing their behaviors of their everyday life.
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Child abuse happens in many different ways, but the result is the same whether it a serious physical or emotional harm. Child abuse is emotional, physical, economic and sexual maltreatment that occurs among children ranging from eighteen years of age and below. Child abuse and or maltreatment constitutes all forms of physical and emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health and survival.
The effects of child abuse are multiple. The pain and trauma the abused child goes through is just a small part of how this cauldron of hidden depravity in our society affects all of us. Wrecked lives can be seen in persons of all ages and in all walks of life. Society as a whole is also effected by child abuse both in negative and positive ways. In this essay I will present some of the factor and results of this violent behavior on individuals as well as our culture.
With the chronic issue of child abuse still affecting children’s education today. It is a key importance that people must not give up on children who are victims of child abuse, but make it their personal goal to help them prosper. School is not just a place where children go in the morning, but a social learning environment that provides students with a lifelong tool of knowledge. As children grow older and into different developmental stages the demand for love, support, leadership, and positive role models are crucial. Abused children are missing these essential needs; this is why the famous saying “It takes a community to raise a child” still holds true today. The education of abuse children is not a lost cause and with proper treatment and teaching they will grow up to be just as successful if not more successful than any other non- maltreated child.
One of the most obvious and damaging results of child abuse is death; however, research illustrating the effects on a growing child who has been abused has demonstrated many other lifelong negative factors (Felitti, Anda, Nordenberg, Williamson, Spitz, Edwards, Koss, Marks, 1998). In consonance children who suffer from abuse can show signs of depression, social withdraw, and even violent behavior. As a child grows older, they may suffer from poor physical health, such as high blood pressure, obesity, stress, and psychological disorders and disabilities (Herronkohl, T., Hong, Klika, and Herronkohl, R., 2013). Child abuse and neglect have also been associated with depression, anger disorders, and post-traumatic