Teenage Aggression And Physical Abuse Of Children

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Teenage aggression is a huge part in today’s society with many children choosing to act out in ways such as aggression. Aggression is the need to always be on the defense being ready to be hostile or violent and have feelings of anger built up. However this is not the child’s fault as a child’s behavior can be impacted by the parent’s behavior such as physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect which can all be associated with teenage aggression.

One factor that can help determine the likelihood of teenage aggression is physical abuse. Physical abuse is any use of physical force that results in impairment, pain or injury. In the journal; the long-term impact of the physical emotional sexual abuse of children it is stated that 7.8 % of women had reported some form of physical abuse such as hitting, striking, burning or shoving (Mullen, P., Martin J, Anderson J., Romans, S., Herbison, G 1996) This type of behavior in adults and caregivers can have a negative impact on a child’s mental health and can lead to disorders such as aggression (Vaden-Kiernan, Ialongno, Pearson, & Kellam, 1995). Especially if a child has witnessed their parents become physical on more than one …show more content…

There are four ways a parent can neglect their child such as physical which is not being able to provide a safe clean home with their own clothes and food, emotional neglect when parents aren’t showing warmth, nurturance and support to the child. Educational neglect when the caregivers fail to provide a satisfactory schooling and environmental neglect when caregivers fail to ensure that the child’s environment is free of dangers. These factors can also be seen as poor parenting. If this form of child abuse at an early age has the potential to lead to depression then even to alcoholism and drug abuse which can lead to an even higher level of aggression (Kenneth W, G. Botvin, G., Scheier, Lawrence M.1; Diaz, T., Miller, N.

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