Child abuse and drug addicted babies
“How many do you think get abused per day?”, what if I told you that more than three million children under the age of 18 die each day due to child abuse and neglect. People think that child abuse isn’t that big of a deal, but as facts say, child abuse is increasing do to the facts of the abused not getting the help they need and turning themselves into the abusers (Perry) (Muscogee County Sheriff's office). Drug addicted babies are also a big problem in the United States, not merely as many die but basically tortured and grow up to be at a poorer physical and mental standard. As they grow up, they are approximately average until the age of four and then from there on out they just start to deplete in their motor skills, they basically become mentally and physically stupid. (Kronstadt, 2013)
Child abuse can come in many shapes in forms. There are four different kinds of abuse that I will be encountering in my research paper; they are physical, mental, emotional, and neglect. Most abuse is from neglect and net from physical. The category under physical also brings in the sexual abuse. (Do Something) Drug addicted babies also can qualify under the category of emotional and mental category. Two of the main questions in this paper are what is child abuse and what are drug addicted babies lives like. It turns out that babies lives do get affected majorly after the age of four, we’ll learn more about that later though. (Kronstadt, 2013)
Why is child abuse so common you might ask. There are many answers, but the best one that research could come up with is that when the abused don’t get the help that they need to have, they more than often become the abuses and then when they abuse their chi...
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...icts never get help will they always stay the same? This is one of the most frequent questions that is in my research paper, but is it true. Research says that abusers and drug addicts will keep on doing to their children of what happened to them when they were little kids; unless they felt that their kids didn’t need that kind of treatment and started a new way of raising their children the way that most people would raise their children. Most times though, that is not the case and if they are to keep themselves from treating their kids the way they do, they need some serious mental therapy to get that instinct or habit out of their system.(Perry)
In the end, the research shows that child abuse and drug addicted babies statistics will keep increasing unless they get the serious mental help that they need to get that instinct of rasing kids out of their system.
...hink that educating the youth on the effects of crack, and teaching them life coping skills can be the most effective way to cut down on the number of those who use crack. The D.A.R.E. organization does this, but they are only one organization and naturally cannot be in every school or school district. If there were more aspiring organizations such as D.A.R.E., I believe there would be a dramatic decrease in the number of addicts and in turn a decrease in violence. In addition, I also believe that parents have to talk to their children and play a more active role in their lives. Everything begins at home, so if a child is taught about drugs at home, when they enter “the real world” they’re already a step ahead.
Parent(s) should be able to provide a stable and loving environment for their children to grow up in, unfortunately, for drug addicted parents this feat seems impossible. Addicts must satisfy their own needs over anything else (Street, Whitlingum, Gibson, Cairns, and Ellis 2011). The high cost of drugs and their bizarre side effects cause rocky, unpredictable daily lives for the children of these addicts. Estimates show “…6 million children live with a parent who abuses alcohol or other drugs” (Taylor 2011). Children that reside with substance abusing parents enter into a perpetual cycle of physical abuse, neglect and emotional trauma. Numerous children raise themselves and/or their siblings because their parent(s) are either too drugged up to tend to their needs or are not home at ...
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Every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States involving more than 6 million children. There can be no single factor identified as the cause of child abuse. However it appears to be influenced by the parents' histories, psychological resources, and economic status.
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Child abuse affects millions of children every year. Child abuse is defined as “the hurting or causing harm to a child” (Stewart, 2003, p. 6). Most people do not understand why a parent would want to hurt their children. “The general belief is that parents who maltreat their children are pathological and certainly not like us” (Polonko, 2005). It is not just parents that abuse the children it is also teachers, babysitters, and daycare workers (Stewart, 2003). Lingern (2008) reported the following:
Poor parenting and living environments can lead to a range of negative outcomes, including abuse, neglect, emotional trauma, and delays in child development. These effects create long-term impacts on a child's life. If we can implement a system that can ensure all parents can support children in positive ways, we can reduce child abuse and neglect. This system could help ensure parents who create bad influences on their children and put them in harm's way can not become parents in the first place. For example, we can stop a drug dealer from having a child who is neglected and raised around drugs that can negatively affect their health for years to come.
Many children that are in these family situations may end up in foster care due to their parent’s inability to properly care for them due to their addictions. If children grow up in families, with issues such as these, it will most likely affect them throughout the remainder of their
We’ll start with child abuse victims and the affects and reasons of this abuse. There are four types of child abuse and I will list them in order from least to greatest, neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Neglect takes first with the NCVS having 54% reports of child neglect in 2007. Neglect is a very serious form of abuse it is the failure for a parent or guardian to provide for a child’s basic needs, including physical and educational needs. We grow and development drastically in the first twelve years of our life so when parental guidance and love is absent it affects a child’s developmental skills along with learning right from wrong. Many forms of neglect occur in larger households and with households with domestic violence. Many parents with multiple kids become too busy focusing on the older children they tend to forget the youngest one. So it’s common for a three year old to walk out of the front door and on to the street when no one is there to tell him or...
Do you ever wonder what a child’s life is like after being born into drug addiction? It is important for all Americans to be aware of what goes on behind the scenes of a drug-exposed newborn. Babies born to drug addicts cost society a great deal of money as soon as they are born because they suffer from illnesses and learning disabilities, so there should be greater penalties for drug abusing mothers. The first main topic is how dangerous it is for a mother to take drugs during pregnancy, and the consequences it has.
When the topic of abuse comes up, many different forms of abuse pop into individuals heads. Whether its Physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal abuse or even drug abuse, the list just keeps going. Now take all those different forms abuse and imagine them happening in a family. A father physically abusing his children, a mother verbally berating her daughter about her body image, a child growing up in fear. According to the research by David Wolfe in the Journal of Consulting and clinical Psychology, that the number of children that have suffered a physical injury due to physical abuse is between 1.4 and 1.9 million annually. With such a high number of physical abuse happening to children, one can imagine how high the number of all the
Children have daily needs, foods, clothing and many more which require financial stability (Julie K. Endersbe, Teen sex, Page 15). If parents are unemployed without a source of income, especially a teenager without any support it will be difficult to raise a child, especially those affected by poverty (Lisa Kruger, Teen pregnancy and parenting, Page 85). Addiction of drugs and alcohol play a significant role in abandonment of children simply because many drug addicts do not take care of themselves, their drugs are more important than food or sleep (Drug abuse by Arther G Herscovitch, 1998, page 27). Fifty five percent of teens believe an unplanned pregnancy was the results of having sex while drunk or on drugs, in which they may not remember having sex().This abuse can cause several types of mental and emotional problems, including loss of interest in things, memory problem, anxiety and denial and such
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
Child abuse is a very serious problem that continues to happen all over the world. The Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, defines child abuse as a failure to act as a parent or caregiver which results in physical/emotional harm, sexual abuse, and in some cases death. There are many different types of child abuse such as emotional, physical, neglect, and sexual. With each type of abuse there are warning signs you can spot before it is too late. When a child is abused there is a huge possibility that it can cause them to have many long term effects.
Daily, there is approximately 428,000 children in the system (Children’s Rights 2017). Although, the government and agencies have come up with plans to reduce this high number, society should consider an objectivist and constructivist approach that may be occurring and ultimately why the numbers aren’t drastically decreasing. An objectivist would argue that the foster care system is a real social problem, but not have identified all aspects that cause this problem. A constructivist would argue that the foster care system is an issue, but the way society identifies with foster care doesn’t seem to view it as significant to other problems. Moreover, society needs to pinpoint why the numbers of children in the system are so high. One of the main causes is substance abuse by parents. In order to understand substance abuse, we need to identify the opioid crisis as a social problem that plays into foster care due to the number of parents that have drug history that runs within their families. Due to the fact that people are more likely to be involved with drugs when they are struggling financially, socioeconomic status is a definite factor. The opioid crisis affects various families under the system, because parents are losing their children due to becoming addicted and not even being able to care for themselves. A lot of opioid users and substance abusers want to get better, but they have just