Damaging Effects of Child Abuse and Social Consequences
Damaging Effects of Child Abuse and Social Consequences
What is child abuse? By definition from www.dictionary.com, child abuse is the deliberate and willful of physical or emotional or sexual abuse of a child. The key word in the definition is deliberate. This involves an active, hostile, aggressive treatment to a child. When something like child abuse occurs in a young child’s life it could end up having a negative effect on them when they are adults. This is something that should be stressed because it is like a cycle.
This topic is very important for anybody who wants to be future parents or if anybody wants to understand child abuse a little better. Hitting a child to correct a mistake is okay to some extent. As long as you don’t get physically scarred the child or mentally scar the child. The child should understand what it has done wrong so next time the mistake could be avoided.
By investigating child abuse I hope to achieve to find out the negative effects it could have on the child when it grows up. I’ll be focusing on this part mainly because I believe that this is something people discard when talking about child abuse. They only talk about what effects if has on the child and usually forget what happens to the child when he or she grows up.
The type of sources I’ll be using for this topic will be the Internet, newspaper articles, books, novels, etc. These sources will help me investigate my topic in depth and it will allow me to find a deeper meaning of child abuse.