Eminem Child Abuse

With so many young adults having children at a younger age then in pass more cases of child abuse are becoming more frequent. When I hear child abuse the first type of abuse to come mind is physical. Physical child abuse physically harm a child is one of many types of child abuse. The other three common types of child abuse are sexual abuse touching or engaging in inappropriately activity, emotional abuse verbally harming a child emotions, and neglect. Eminem does a great job of breaking down child abuse in his song, When I'm gone. Eminem song, When I’m gone tell a story of a father that is too busy, always working or always putting other people before his daughter. Eminem’s helps listeners understand child abuse by showing some of the causes and by painting a

picture and highlighting two types of child abuse emotional and neglect.
One way Eminem helps listeners understand abuse is by showing the causes of abuse. One of the main causes of child abuse is stress.

There are also many causes of stress one of them is being too busy. According to Smith articles Stress symptoms signs and causes, being too busy is one of the most common stressors. A stressor is problems or items that may cause stress to a person. Eminem show this in his songs when his daughter was asking for his attention he reply by saying “go play Hailie, baby, your Daddy's busy”. Eminem just like a lot of people was too busy for his child. Many people ‘too busy’ is them working other people ‘too busy’ is them talking on the phone, playing video games, or something of that nature. I too am guilty of this. There have been times when I have been babysitting and was too busy playing the game to realize what the kids were doing. A few minutes of silence from them made me go check on them. When went to go see what they were doing I was shock to find that kids had the whole room covered in baby oil and powder. Being too busy could have cause a lot of harm to the children. They could have gotten into bleach or a harmful substance and seriously hurt themselves. Stress can also lead into depression if left alone. That brings me to my second point that being

depressed causes child abuse. Depression affects many people and in return it causes them to make some bad choices. “ Eminem shows this when he said “I turn around, find a gun on the ground, cock it Put it to my brain, scream "Die Shady!" and pop it”. Eminem was so depressed that he was ready to kill himself. Killing himself is abuse also. Eminem daughter would have to grow up with the thought of her father not loving her enough to stay alive. No child should have to live with that type of emotional abuse of watching her father try to commit suicide. She not only had a suicidal father, but she also had a suicidal mother. She had two suicidal parents. Eminem shows us this when he says “Help mommy her wrist are bleeding”. We see that Eminem wife has tried to commit suicide by slitting her wrist. All of these are cause by stress and depression. According to Carole Jenny book Child Abuse and Neglect: Diagnosis, Treatment and Evidence “Children who have caregivers with depression and substance abuse are more at risk to be abuse”. Depression and substance abuse such as drugs can increase the chances of a child being abuse. Eminem shows us substance abuse in the song when he says “these fucking walls must be talking because man I can hear them”.