By DeZha Glover

Child abuse occurs everywhere. In majority of cases, the offender is someone the child knows, and is
often trustworthy by the child and household. Child abuse is beyond contusions and damaged bones.
While physical mistreatment might be the utmost observable, emotional abuse and abandonment, also
leave unfathomable, permanent scars. Some of these scars might be physical, but emotional scarring
has extended long-lasting effects throughout life, damaging a youths logic of self, capability to have
healthy relations, and ability to function at home, at work and at school. Taking no notice of childrens
needs, putting them in unsupervised, hazardous
conditions, or making a child feel insignificant or
senseless are also child abuse. Nonetheless of
the type of child abuse, the result is severe
emotional damage. Child abuse is a huge thing
going around in the United States and not much
is being done about. You see shootings
repeatedly on the news but it is very rare you will
see anything about child abuse. Yes, they have
the same amount of importance because one
could die from child abuse as one could die from
a gunshot wound. There should be a lot of care
in the world. What if it was your child?
The earlier child abuse is wedged, the better the chance of regaining and proper handling for the child.
Child abuse is not at all times evident. By wisdom more or less of the mutual advisory signs of child
abuse and neglect, you can catch the problem as early as possible and get both the youth as well as the
abuser the aid that they need. In the meantime, there are diverse cautionary signs for the diverse types
of child abuse there is. Emotional abuse is excessively withdrawn, fearful, or anxious about doing
something wrong, shows extremes in behavior. In a study of 17,000 adults, those abused as children
were more likely to become suicidal; more likely to have heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, and
liver disease; twice as likely to be smokers; twice as likely to be severely obese; twice as likely to become
alcoholics; and three times a likely to develop a drug addiction.
In 2000, approximately 2 million reports of suspected child abuse or neglect were studied by child
protective services agencies, signifying more than 2.7 million children who were alleged victims of
maltreatment and who were referred for investigation (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
2002). Of these children, approximately 879,000 were found to be victims of maltreatment, meaning
that adequate indication was found to corroborate or demonstrate the report of child maltreatment.
This imitates a national rate of approximately 12.2 children per 1,000 children younger than 18 years of
age in the universal population who were found to be substantiated or indicated victims of
maltreatment. This estimate represents an annual rate of abuse among children under 18. However, an
individual childs likelihood of being abused over the course of his or her childhood may be higher.
In my perspective, child abuse is one of the many miserable and most heartbreaking problems in
America. . If the general public extent on their attentiveness of what is going on around them, social
modification will come about. (San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, 2014). Abuse distresses its
victim as well as those who love them. Suffering takes place and scourges the enthusiasm of those who
hurt someones state of mind and those who are insulted. Child abuse hinders the divine development
and passionate well-being of children of God and stances in the way of their development in the
direction of precision. It is biased to any child or teenager to have to go through any usage of physical
abuse. Child abuse pursue nothing but undesirable possessions that could last a whole generation.
Deprived societal expertise, psychosomatic problems, and other psychiatric and physical anxieties are
just a few ways child abuse can have an impression on the victim. As luck would have it, one who has
suffered child abuse can get aid or support by visiting a therapist or in quest of a counselor. All being
well, child abuse is a severe problem that outbreaks America's youth and there should be a stop to it.

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San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center. (2014). Information about child abuse and
prevention.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (1993). Study of child maltreatment in alcohol
abusing families. Washington, DC: National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect.