Physical Effects Of Child Abuse

Child abuse effects

Child abuse causes many negative effects. Every child who has suffered abuse is affected differently.The effects of abuse can be divided into physical damage, emotional damage, and social damage (Briere & Runtz,1986,p.76).

Physical damage includes hitting, shaking, kicking, and burning. At least one of them could happen on a physically abused child. Physical abuse could include cuts, fractures, burns and sometimes death. The first suffering a child faces is the immediate pain of violence then suffering of medical treatment to return back the strong body. Time of cure depends on the level of damage that happens to a child. Strong physical damage could include the long term impact such as mental

problems and disabilities. When a child faces physical abuse in early age, the long term impact will defnitely occur. For example, Shaken Baby Syndrome may lead to blindness or deafness.
Another effect of child abuse is emotional damage. There is a strong relationship between physical abuse and emotional damage. Also, there are lots of studies showing that all children who suffer from abuse sexually physically, or neglect, have psychological problems. Moreover, there are lots of difficulties faced by an abused child in a school, such as self-control and relationship by comparing with a non-abused child. In addition, the physically abused child is lead to the use of drugs or alcohol and has more chances to be an aggressive child and parent.
One of other effects of child abuse is social damage.The results of abuse here are unclear in the first, but with the time the results will be obvious. In child life, a child will be poor to have friendship, social skills, trusting people and language skills. In adult life, they have problems with their families and society. In addition, they have mental and health problems, homelessness, unemployment, and crimes. All those impacts of abuse cost the community a lot, for example, increasing crimes.