The Causes For Child Abuse

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that is going to be addressed.
There are many causes for child abuse. The most common are
isolation, generation gap. immaturity, and alcoholism. Immaturity,
unfortunately is the culprit of many child abuse cases today. Children
suffer abuse because their parents/guardians are too young to cope with all
the responsibilities and problems that go with being a parent (Dolan 18).
If a young person doesn’t have the experience and hasn’t learned enough
about raising a child, then there is no way that the parent could possibly
understand the child’s development needs. Young abusive parents are strict
disciplinarians who are frustrated from unmet expectations (U.S. 36).
Thirteen-year-old Steve didn’t see anything wrong with smoking
marijuana. But his family did. His father flew into a rage when he found
three joints hidden in the boy’s room. He hit Steve and knocked him
unconscious.-- from L.A. (Dolan 17). A generation gap is the difference in
seeing things between adults ...

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parents/guardians have trouble
dealing with everyday life, and when stressful times come around they have
no way to constructively deal with their problems. The end result is
parent/guardians abusing their child.
There is no stereotype of an abusive parent/guardian or family.
Many people think that in the lower classes, is where children are abused.
This thought is completely wrong. Although families involved with an
abused child most of the time seem to be from the lower socioeconomic
classes (S. Ruth 10) there are abusive families in all the classes. Child
abuse and neglect are part of the list of grave risks that out-of-wedlock
birth and divorce place on the development of ...

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