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Overview
toc It is never okay to harm a human being, even worse is to harm a helpless child. The sad part is that most of the children are getting hurt by the ones who they rely on to protect and care for them. Child abuse has been going on ever since the 1900's (Alberta). There are many forms of child abuse Some parents abuse without even knowing it, the main reason they're doing it is to "discipline" them, but there is a thin line between discipline and abuse (Saisan). It wasn't until the 19th century that children were given legal protection against cruelty and neglect. Even though there are laws that help prevent child abuse, millions of children are still being abused and neglected. =Types Of Abuse = =Physical =  Physical abuse can contain anything from hitting, punching, beating, or shaking a kid, even if unintended (Child). Mothers and fathers both have an equal chance of abusing their kid physically while sexual abuse is done mostly by males (Morales)

Neglect
It’s when parents refuse or can not provide proper housing, food, medical help, or emotional needs. Also they need but do not receive medical treatment, or are not sent to school for a while. In most of the neglect cases, the mother is the neglecting guardian (Rogan).

Emotional
The emotional fundamentals of the kid are torn down and they feel unwanted, unfit, angry, and exploited (Morales). Emotional abuse can be uncalled for verbal abuse or punishment that can cause severe mental suffering (Child). This is the most scarring of all the different types of abuse.

Sexual
Sexual abuse is commonly done by a man not related to the child but has easy access (Rogan). Sexual abuse can easily be defined as molestation, rape, incest, or improper physical touching to the child (Child). Sexual abuse can be caused by many factors, like the attacker was too a victim of sexual assault and couldn't recover from it (Morales).

There are many witnesses of children getting abused and they don't even contact authorities or even try to help the child. There are cases where there are people who know a child is being abused, but they don’t report it (Marzo). Most people don't [|report] child abuse because "they don't want to interfere with someone elses "family". In certain circumstances it's okay to interfere with someone's family and it is especially okay if by doing so you may be saving a child's life.

=Effects Of Child Abuse =

Lack Of Trust
If you can’t trust your parents, who can you trust? Every since you were born, you trusted your parents to feed you, provide you shelter, clothes, and necessities. If you’re betrayed by the one’s who you trusted the most, who can you turn to? Abused children have a harder time making relationships because they fear they will get abused by others.

Emotional Damages
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What if you’re constantly told that you were “worthless” or “stupid”? Most likely sooner or later you’re going to actually believe that you are. Children who were emotionally abused will most likely have low self-esteem and will believe every bad thing they hear about them self. Sexual abused children will feel shamed and embarrassed about themselves because of it (Saisan).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teen Pregnancy
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stats show that children that were abused are 25% more to experience teenage pregnancy (National).Two-thirds of a sample of 535 young women from the state of Washington who became pregnant as adolescents had been sexually abused.Fifty-five percent had been molested, 42 percent had been victims of attempted rape and 44 percent had been raped (Alberta).

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Report it
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The best way you can help stop child abuse is to report it. One of the best place to report child abuse is through the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline. They can be contacted with the phone number: 1-800-4-A-Child (1-800-422-4453) (Saisan)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t Do It Yourself
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Something that everyone can do to help stop child abuse is, don’t do it yourself. A reason that parents abuse their children is because that’s what they’re parents did to them. They don’t know any other way to raise or discipline their children because that’s how their parents did it. If you don’t abuse your children, it is most likely that they won’t abuse their children and then they cycle of abuse might stop. We need a new societal norm to be made and kept up, doing this will set an expectation and allow new parents to get ready for the role. They have to realize parenting is probably, no is, the most important thing a person can do, and it must be done with a lot of responsibility (Morales).

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alberta Report 14 Apr. 1997: 28-9. Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 19 Mar. 2012.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Child Abuse." Compton's by Britannica. 01 Aug 2011: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 26 Mar 2012.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Marzo, Kerrie. "Anatomical simulator of the most common physical signs of child abuse." Public Health Reports 107.2 (1992): 218+. Student Resources in Context. Web. 16 May 2012.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Morales, Alex. "Seeking a cure for child abuse." USA Today [Magazine] Sept. 1998: 34+. Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 19 Mar. 2012.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rogan, Mary. "Breaking the vicious circle: why do parents abuse their kids? For the past twenty years, scientists have been talking about a 'cycle of abuse'...now they're discovering the truth." Toronto Life Aug. 1997: 49-55. Student Resources in Context. Web. 19 Mar. 2012.

Saisan, Joanna, Melinda Smith, and Jeanne Segal. "Child Abuse and Neglect." Helpguide. Helpguide. Web. 29 Mar. 2012. <__http://www.helpguide.org/mental/child_abuse_physical_emotional_sexual_neglect.htm>__

Bulthuis, Peter. Child Abuse. Digital image. Flickr. Yahoo. Web. 29 Mar. 2012. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/bulthuisp/111117477/>.