Here’s the link: http://helpguide.org/mental/child_abuse_physical_emotional_sexual_neglect.htm
“Grown-ups are usually there to help and encourage kids, right? They take care of them, help them learn how to do things, show them the right way to behave, and encourage the good things that kids do. Most adults treat kids well. But some adults hurt kids rather than help them. Another word for hurting someone is "abuse."
You might have a picture in your head about what child abuse is like. When it happens, abuse can affect all kinds of kids, no matter where they live, how much money their families have, or who they live with. A kid can be abused by a parent, step-parent, and other relative in the family, babysitter, teacher, coach, or a bigger kid. Child abuse can happen at home, school, childcare, or even in a church or other religious building or anywhere”. (credit to http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/emotion/handle_abuse.html)
Here is nothing more disturbing to me than child abuse stories, except actual child abuse. I find that I cannot watch TV shows or read book that involve child abuse with out becoming sick to my stomach. Child abuse stories make me extremely angry and helpless at the same time. I have a very strong opinion about it. I just don’t understand people who can do this to their children, or any child for that matter. Children should be protected, not harmed.There are two main problems. One is that people don’t want to involve themselves. They see something that bothers or disturbs them but instead of investigating it or reporting it they come up with some logical explanation to explain things away. I would rather be the person who cried wolf than find out I should have reported it and did not. Two, child abuse is usually hidden. Children are trained not to tell or admit it is happening. Child abuse stories need to be heard, and be used to wake people up. Make them understand that it is really happening. Child abuse is one of those things people would rather not know about. Maybe one store being shared will help others identify a child who needs help, and motivate them to offer that helping hand. As adults it is our job to protect children, even when they are not ours.
Please spread this to everyone you know or loved, to share this information with them. A child doesn’t deserve this at all. We all can make this big different if we do get them some help.
Child abuse happens all over the world. It can be verbally, physically, mentally, and sexually. It is a sad thing and no one, no matter what they did, deserves to be abused whether it’s a child or an adult. You would probably have a stronger feeling toward this article because you have kids yourself. They are your own kids and to imagine anything bad happening to them is unimaginable. “Treat others as you would want to be treated.” This is one of the many quotes I like to live by. I do not understand how people can hurt others without sympathy. Many people have different intentions for abusing their children. They have excuses such as stress, frustration, “It was an accident.”, and many more. Sometimes parents have their children at a young age and that could affect how they would take care of their child. Some parents are drug addicts and/or alcoholics. Some parents just don’t feel like they are parents and they have no connection to their child. This is not excusable. There is a line on how parents can discipline and teach their children. There are many stories on child abuse as well as hotlines, therapies, groups, and more to help others cope and spread awareness. Abuse does affect children in all aspects of their lives. They will need help. Not just the victim, but the abuser as well. The victim may develop low self-esteem which can lead to depression. It may also lead to alcoholism, drugs, pregnancy, STIs, harm to themselves and/or others, among many things. Some children may take the blame for being abuse. Some do not even know WHY they are being abused. The children who were abused may also become abusers later in life. This is a sad thing and we can do something, even if it is small, to help child abuse.
ReplyDeleteI believe the parents and other people (teacher, coach, babysitter, etc.) who abuse the children are not right to do to the children. If the children are abused by their parents or other people, the parents or other people may be in the prison due to the physical abuse. The abuse is not permitted and not respectful to the children or adults. If a person abuses children, I just know some children will live with one of the parents’ relative or possibly live in a foster home for safety.
ReplyDeleteThe children’s emotion will change if the abuse happens to them. I don’t like to see the children to feel scared, nervous, and worried so much after the abuse happened because I don’t want them to obsess what happened with the abuse in the past and a abuser who abused them may be in the prison. The children will possibly see a counselor if they don’t feel better.
I wish people who should not abuse the children because the children have nothing to do with them physically. They need to respect them. If the children have a bad attitude or problem, the parent or whoever is with them can talk to them instead of the abuse. That is simple. If the children do abuse a person, they might see a counselor or are sent to the prison.
I believe that people who were being beated up before would cause them to pass it on to their children to beat them up to make themselves to feel better. It is the wrong way for the adults to do that to the children because the children is not their past that makes the adults to feel angry and abuse the children. If the adults are beating the children, they should know better to go to get help and realizes that the children are innocent. The abuse cycle will be continue to pass on from the mother/father abusing to the children then the children will pass it on to their future children. I wish the abuse cycle can be broken because we all do not need this kind of abuse in our life experience.
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