Effects of Child Abuse

Child abuse isn't just physical abuse, it goes deeper than that. Child abuse can also be emotional and sexual abuse, and child neglect. Emotional abuse is basically abuse that gets to your emotional, for example, getting yelled at all the time or getting the blame for everything.Emotional abuse is draining and can lead to depression. Sexual abuse is exactly what it sounds like, it can be rape, sexual assault, or sexual molestation. In other words, forcing a child to do things they don't want to sexually. Child neglect is failure to give children emotional and physical care. Child neglect can also be not taking care of a child in terms of maltreatment. Maltreatment basically sums child abuse up by itself. Other effects from child abuse are aggression, alcohol/drug abuse, eating disorders, failure to thrive, behavior and concentration problems, dehydration, insomnia, etc.

As we all know, child abuse happens for many different reasons. An article I found interesting is about a mother and her four children. The mother was abused as a child and transferred it over to her kids. She ended up killing all four of her children due to her past experiences. Also when she was 18 months old her father killed her mother. Child abuse is a very powerful thing that can transfer over to someone's children. People need to think of the consequences before they abuse a child.