Child Abuse Outline

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General Introduction

Approximately five children die everyday from child abuse. Child abuse has become a major problem across the world. Child abuse has risen significantly in the past years and it has led to a lot of problems. Child abuse hasn't been taken as seriously as it should be and people don’t realize that it’s so common. There are four main types of child abuse child neglect, emotional and physical. Together these three types of child abuse has created a major problem.

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One example of the thousands of children being neglected is Sophie. Sophie’s parents both used drugs her mom never really noticed if she went to school or not an honestly didn’t care. Her parents yelled at her a lot and she started to believe …show more content…

Studies show it can cause the most mental health problems. Some of these problems result in adults being stuck taking therapy for years and sometimes they never recover. These kids grow up thinking that they’re bad kids or unimportant and that can make them less confident adults. Many studies also show that children abused as kids tended to get worse jobs than kids that were not abused as a child.

Lastly, no one realizes when a child is abused. According to apa.org most children that are neglected as children don’t tell anyone until their 20’s. That might sound bad but it’s even worse when you consider all of the people that might've never told anyone or even realize they grew up in a different life than other children.

Ultimately this all leads up to stress, less job opportunities, decreased confidence. It’s important to remember the scariest part that most child abuse situations are probably never found out about at least not until they can inflict some serious …show more content…

A while back there was a boy named Pete. When Pete was a toddler, he saw his mother throwing large books down the stairs at his dad at the time he realized it was a game this is the earliest memory of Pete seeing his mother's rage. Pete says that he grew up with his mother constantly beating him, throttling him and throwing him into boiling hot baths. Another time she shoved an entire bar of soap into his mouth. He says that there are so many times that she physically abused him that he can’t remember all of them. Peter said that even though she could be really horrible she could be a regular loving mother too this made it harder for him tow see that he wasn’t living a normal life. When Peter tried to talk about these instances she’d be very apologetic or just blame him for them claiming he started it. She hid her maleficence from him for a long time. As a child, Peter didn’t misbehave and there wasn’t anything he did that would actually deserve physical violence. All of this got so bad that he’d start avoiding being in the same room as her. He began to dread hair and fear her in every way knowing that if he made one wrong move he’d suffer the consequences. In conclusion Peter was physically abused and he himself didn’t start to realize he wasn’t living a normal life till he was about 12 and he didn’t really tell anyone about ti till his 20’s this is scary. All of this shows how easy it is to not detect physical abuse and you never

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