Child Abuse

Chelsea Beal
September 19, 2012
English 1105

Child abuse is harm done to a child by another person or neglect of a child, this person can be either a child or an adult. Unfortunately child abuse is met in all cultures, in all ethnic and income groups. The fact that only recently and only in some certain countries and cultures the child abuse started to be seen as one of the major social problems, is really surprising. Child abuse also turned out to be the main cause of people's sufferings and personal problems.
Throughout the whole human history children were abused. But historical and cultural developments may be called the facts that people started to think about this problem, ...

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too much obsessed with child abuse and absolutely deny that fact that some personal problems and deviations in behavior of adults are the consequences of the abuse done to them when they were children.
Each day in the United States more than three children die as a result of child abuse in the home". This statistic is too high and there need to be changes to overcome this problem. As a parent you are expected to take of your children and treat them the right way. This is not always the case and children end up being abused in the home were they are supposed to feel safe. Changes need to be made to the welfare system to help keep children safe. "Physical abuse is the mistreatment of a child that causes physical injury, impairment, or endangerment". Children expect their parents to love them and take care of them but when the parent starts to abuse them they get confused and typically keep it to themselves. There are many emotional problems they go through.
Child abused is a ...

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Added: 9/20/2012 01:06:48 AM
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Category: Social Issues
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