Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Child abuse

During the course of this book I have come to think that the main point could be either anger management of child abuse. I have decided to do mine about child abuse. Some of the things that happen is, when Chris was young and he had his temper, his parents would let him do what he did but make it painful so he wouldn’t do it again ( King of the Mild Frontier all of chapter 1). I have found one web site that has all of the statistics that I have needed. (Child abuse… statistics, research, and resources). First here are some of the statistics that I found on this website. Most of the children that experience child abuse never are found by the government until they are either old enough to be away from that person or we find a body. This is one of the saddest statistics I have ever heard because I thought that the government found almost all of the children before it was to late. I also found out that this is a problem for a big reason. People don’t want to believe this either because they just can’t come to understand that or they just don’t want to believe this. It is almost impossible to figure out the exact number of children abused is because they either never tell anyone if the survive or the body is never found, unidentified, or has no apparent cause of death. Another reason is because every state and territory has a different line between parenting and child abuse and so every state is different.
This next paragraph of information was all found at Wikipedia.org. Wikipedia has a definition of child abuse unlike each individual state. Wikipedia says that Child abuse is the physical, emotional or sexual abuse or neglect of children by parents, guardians, or others. There are several causes for Child abuse. The biggest cause is the fact that the abusers were themselves abused. Not that this makes it okay, but it makes you wonder if those people had a reason to do it to others. Other causes are mental illness, or the abusers have some kind of physical or mental deformity. The worst case effect of child abuse is that the children will grow up and in turn abuse their own children, which does nothing but start a vicious chain. Most of the children that get abused end up with mental unrest and detachment issues. 80% of children that get abused have some type of disorganized attachment problems. Most of these children will become depressed at sometime during their life or they may even become suicidal and not except help from any of the several organizations that offer help to abused and neglected children all over the world.

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