Persuasive Essay On Child Abuse

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Abuse happens everyday, it may happen to someone and they may not realize it is happening. States are looking for ways to deal with the one million cases of child abuse each year. One method , known as differential response or alternative response, is being used in a number of state child protective service programs. How would you define abuse? Abuse is the use of something for a bad purpose; misuse or to hurt or injure by maltreatment; ill-use. Some types of abuse are physical abuse: involving hitting, pushing, biting, punching, choking; Emotional abuse: cursing/ swearing, attacks on self-esteem, blaming, and criticizing your thoughts and feelings; Psychological abuse: Threatening, throwing, smashing, breaking things, punching walls, and …show more content…

What are people doing to make it go away? What are methods to control child abuse? Be a good example, respect your family members. When children misbehave, let them know you dislike what they did, not who they are. Do not hit your kids, violence teaches violence. Apologize when you are wrong. Say “I love you”. Reward good behavior(Abbott). Be able to recognize the signs of abuse. Know the signs of neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse. With more than 400,000 American children in foster care and millions more urgently needing help, we could fill stadiums with children who are counting on us. They need us to be strong, to look evil in the face, and to step in as protectors.It would be easy to turn away from these vulnerable children and the atrocities they face. After all, we are not witnesses ourselves. Yet, like Penn State leaders, we have a duty to act. The people who are forgetting the lessons we learned only a few years ago, who have gathered evidence that could protect untold thousands of children and know what to do work for …show more content…

We will never get rid of predators, and there will always be abusive parents. Social workers, church leaders, school principals, and district officials may be following rules designed to serve adults and guard institutions, but they should have tuned into more basic instincts and protected children. If they would have embraced those children as their own, their feelings might have led them to a very different outcome(Banks). States are looking for ways to deal with the one millions cases of child abuse that appear each year. Instead of only one approach in child welfare, they are looking for better ways to use their staff community resources. We fight for the every girl and boy who has had basic tight to safety. We constantly assess the successes and failures of strategies undertaken on behalf of our youth. While there is more to be done, we have made great strides. Because of the collective progress made in identifying and helping victims, we have launched a prevention initiative designed to ensure that at-risk children never become victims in the first place(Joseph). The United States is taking baby steps, but hopefully it will lead into some bigger and better things in the

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