Primavera, Judith and Shelley A. Jackson. "Child Abuse." Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health, January. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=t6o&AN=93871829&site=src_ic-live
"It is difficult to imagine anything more frightening to a child than being neglected, threatened, beaten, or molested by an adult who is supposed to be his or her primary source of care and protection." Child abuse is a common problem all over the world. There is many types of forms of abuse like Physical abuse, Sexual abuse, Emotional abuse/Psychological abuse, and neglect. The media all over the world has heard stories of children being maltreated. The article was stating the Types of abuse, the Extent of abuse, the Consequences …show more content…
"It has serious physical, emotional, and behavioral consequences for the child, like at times a tendency toward aggression and violence." The definition of child abuse has expanded over the years from physical injury to physical assault, neglect, emotional/mental abuse, and sexual abuse. Children who are abused when they're children most likely grow up to be aggressive parents and abuse their child. Sometimes when the mother tries to stick up for the child the husband/partner usually hits them too. The theory in the 1960's about the reasons on why do parents abuse their children is because they were mentally disturbed. The point of this article was to explain how child abuse occurs and how it can be treated. If somebody asked me what this article was about i would say that it explains how child abuse first became a law and how it was explaining why parents abused their children and the effects that it has on the children later on in the …show more content…
Children may develop these as ways to cope with the traumatizing memories; eating disorders, self-harm, drug use, discomfort with physical touch, troubled sleeping, and risky sexual decision-making. When children who were abused grow up, they want to take out all that abuse on other people because they want other people to feel what they felt when they were younger. They grow up being every kind of abuse to their child or wife/girlfriend. They abuse their children or wife/girlfriend because they never got to let their anger out when they were