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Click here to visit our website. =**Overview**= Child Abuse all over the world is on the rise. The three main types of abuse are emotional, physical, and sexual. When a parent harms a child it’s then considered child abuse. Also abuse is common between siblings (“What”). Many parents don’t consider their actions as abuse but it becomes abuse when a parent or guardian fails to get treatment (“Dentists”). Neglect is more damaging and devastating to a child than sexual or physical abuse (McLean). Neglect is when a parent fails to provide a child with clothes on their back, provide a safe home and medical attention(“What”). Men and wom en with the history of child abuse will have difficulty establishing, successful relationships, suffer from low self esteem and probably will fail to parent their children appropriately. Mostly women are likely to attract abusive partners and leave their children unprotected in return they are abused also ( “A child’s”). Child abuse has a lot of consequences/effects and can possibly follow you for the rest of your life. Many professionals fear the consequences of reporting suspected abuse. State law enforcement and child-welfare agencies are struggling to manged the volume of child abuse allegation. People don't report child abuse because it might involve a child being separated from their parents, or start an expensive time consuming court case (Quinton). Professionals who are legally bound to report abuse many of them don't because many of them do not know how to identify abuse or they are scared to act on their suspicions. Only 18 states requires that all adults report child abuse. Most states require that law-enforcement and professionals who work with children to pay close attention to signs of abuse and to report them to child-welfare services or the police (Quinton). Take a stand and tell, you could be saving a child's life.

=**Different Types**=

**Physical Abuse:**
Actions of physical abuse are bashing a child, physically injures a child, or threatens to hurt them. Oral dentists should pay special attention when an injury does not match up to the story, such as when a parent claims that their child’s injury occurred during an activity uncommon for his or her age group.

**Sexual Abuse:**
Sexual abuse is when a parent, family member or someone close to the family, makes you do sexual things. They might trick you, pressure you, scare you, confuse you or even threatens you so that you feel like you have to do these things. This happens when one person decides to use sexual acts to dominate someone else and use them for their own sexual desires.toc

**Emotional Abuse:**
Emotional abuse is when a parent or adult puts you down continually with name calling, makes you feel like you’re not worth anything or acts like they don’t want you or care bout you. Emotional abuse, which in many occasions is not even counted as abuse by the parents, can leave a deep impact in the psychology of the child. Parents tend to shout, blame, compare, humiliate, and threaten the child in the hope of making them obey.

**Neglect:**
Neglect is when a parent fails to provide a child with clothes on their back, safe home, medical attention, or food.

=Problems=

**Suicide:**
Child Abuse can lead to [|Suicide]. Adults exposed to four or more adverse experiences in childhood were 12 times more likely to have attempted suicide than those who had no adverse experiences in childhood.

**Substance Abuse:**
Children whose parents abuse alcohol and other drugs are three times more likely to be abused and more than four times more likely to be neglected than children from non-abusing families. Women who have been sexually abused are twice as likely to turn to drugs and alcohol themselves.

**Alcohol:**
Children growing up in homes where there is drug or alcohol addiction are at especially high risk -- as many as 60 - 70 per cent are abused.

**Domestic Violence:**
Adults that suffered from sexually abuse in the past probably will be in an a relationship with an abusive relationship. Also they most likely will attract an abusive partner and leave their own children unprotected so that they in turn are abused.

**Rehab:**
The abused are more likely to experience mental and physical illness, to need a variety of social services, and to enter drug and alcohol treatment programs many times over.

**Teen Pregnancy:**
Abused children are 25% more likely to experience [|teen pregnancy]. Teens that are abused are less likely to practice safe sex, putting them at greater risk for STDs.

**Mental Disorders:**
About 80% of 21 year olds that were abused as children met criteria for at least one psychological disorder. A psychological disorder, also known as a mental disorder, is a pattern of behavioral or psychological symptoms that impact multiple life areas and/or create distress for the person experiencing these symptoms.

**Prison:**
14% of all men in prison in the USA were abused as children. 36% of all women in prison were abused as children. Children who experience child abuse & neglect are 59% more likely to be arrested as a juvenile, 28% more likely to be arrested as an adult, and 30% more likely to commit violent crime.

**Homelessness**:
Adults who experienced a combination of a lack of care and either child physical or sexual abuse were 26 times more likely to have been homeless than those with no experiences of abuse.

**Problems at school:**
Children and adolescents affected by abuse and neglect risk poor academic achievement at school, which may lead to difficulties finding employment in adulthood.

**Sexual Behavior:**
Adults who have experienced childhood abuse and neglect, particularly child sexual abuse are more likely to engage in high-risk [|sexual behavior]. Sexually transmitted diseases was three and a half times higher for men and women who were exposed to three to five adverse childhood experiences compared to adults who had no adverse childhood experiences.

**Violence:**
Violence and criminal behavior is another frequently identified long-term consequence of child abuse and neglect for adult survivors, particularly for those who have experienced physical abuse or witnessed domestic violence.

=Prevention/Solution=

**Community**
Many people think that educating new parents on how to pacify and cope with their screaming babies would lower the abuse rate in America. Maybe even taking the extra step to train first responders (police, firefighters and EMT's) on what to look for when they go out on calls that are unrelated to abuse and neglect(“Child Abuse”). One community has come together to make a mentoring system. This program connects seasoned parents with new mothers and fathers who may be clueless about the challenging and sometimes frustrating journey of raising a child (“Child Abuse”). Those ideas, and many more, were part of the mix Monday as a task force made up of representatives from social service agencies, government, hospitals, the military and law enforcement met to discuss ways to prevent child fatalities from abuse or neglect. Other idea is to establish a hotline to connect parents on the verge of losing their cool with someone who can help them(“Child Abuse”). One idea is to expand the region’s 2-1-1 hotline to include the service for parents. “I see this as a type of triage; we talk to people, find out what they need,” said Michelle Milner, who oversees the local 2-1-1 office (Child). Expand ways to reach parents of newborns and provide them with support and education. Memorial has a bedside program for parents of newborns to teach them about the dangers of shaking a baby and how to cope with a crying baby (“Child Abuse”). Duncan said the program reduced cases of abusive head trauma by 63 percent its first year and 50 percent the second, but not all babies are born at Memorial, and not all women are in a learning frame of mind right after giving birth. One message was clear: There is no single answer to preventing child abuse and neglect (“Child Abuse”). Some abuse occurs in a state of rage by a parent who didn’t mean to hurt the child. Some takes place discreetly, over time, resulting in burns and broken bones (“Child Abuse”). Some parents will accept offers of help and education; others won’t. But if those parents can’t be reached, others who know them can (“Child Abuse”). A lot of families, we discuss in fatality reviews. You could put a million brochures in front of them, and it’s not going to stop them from killing children (“Child Abuse”). They’re not reaching out for services,” Duncan said. “But someone in their circle if they reached out, that may have saved a child (“Child Abuse”). Raising a child isn’t a easy job but the reward is bigger than

**Having Laws**
A bill to protect children from sexual abuse is on the Parliaments agenda. The proposed bill, the first of its kind in India, defines sexual abuse of children, categorizing these offenses under 'assault', 'harassment' and '[use of children in] pornography' and specifies punishments extending to life imprisonment(“Child Sex”). If this bill is approved, then the Home and Law ministries have to set up the mandated [|child protection courts], one special court per district, to hear cases of child sexual abuse. Till the point all of this actually happens, [cases of] sexual abuse of our children by those above 18 years of age will continue to be tried in adult courts(“Child Sex”). Given what transpires in adult courts and the time taken, this also means that sexual crimes against children by adults will continue to rise and be severely under-reported. Let alone this bill having good intentions there is still some grey area. Many people fear that this bill will be 'graveyard of good intentions’(“Child Sex”). The bill proposes that for a child between 16 and 18, it is necessary to first consider whether the child consented to the sexual act before the law can be applied. Parliament has described this clause as 'almost legalizing child sexual abuse by legally discriminating against our children'. And let us be very clear here, 'consent' implies 'informed consent (“Child Sex”). Which means that if the State wants to wash its legal hands of-forever, because that is what the bill will do if it becomes law-a swathe of its citizens in the 16-to-18 age band, it needs to first start a discussion in the public domain. So this clause must be deleted from this bill and debated in public for later inclusion if the stakeholders decide in its favor, with the State having formulated a comprehensive response-monitoring mechanism (“Child Sex”). Pornography is currently being viewed by some along the adult axis of 'why not?', which is neither holistic nor long-term thinking because children are at direct risk when it comes to pornography, be it as those acted upon or made to act. When it comes to child sexual abuse, prevention is most certainly the best form of cure (“Child Sex”). Be it at home (where 50 per cent of abuse takes place), where parents, elders and schools have to step in to ensure their child's safety, or be it outside (where the other half takes place), where the State and its entire machinery has to step up to protect the child. Also, the Human Resource Development Ministry must formulate modules on '[|sex education]'(“Child Sex”). Teachers can conduct one interactive class per year, starting from the primary level, going up to class 12. The education modules would include child sexual abuse and expand age-appropriately to provide holistic information on the body (“Child Sex”). Having laws may scare people into not do wrong thing.

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"Parental abuse can scar a child's mindset; Parents knowingly or unknowingly abuse their children emotionally. They must be educated about the implications of physical and emotional abuse. Awareness among parents is the need of the hour, doctors say." DNA [Daily News & Analysis] 30 July 2011. Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 26 Mar. 2012.<[]>.

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=External Links=

[|Bursting The Bubble] [|Child Abuse Signs] [|Child Abuse Laws] [|Together As One]