Child_Abuse

Child Abuse Child abuse is an ever-spreading problem in our society today. The number of cases that involve physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and physical and emotional neglect have all risen significantly in the last few years. Specifically, the number of physically abused children has gone up from 311,500 to 614,100 (a 97% increase) from 1986 to 1993(National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect, 1993). There are three main views of child abuse quantitative, which is how wide spread the problem is and how many people it affects, qualitative, which is how a person is affected, and harm, which is the physical harm done to the child. The other issue that comes up with child abuse is ethics. Ethics are what is believed to be “crossing the line” and the point where it is felt that something has to be done to help a child being abused. The National Incidence Study will be used to illustrate the quantitative effects and statistics of child abuse. David Pelzer, author of A Child Called “It”, went through some of the most outrageous things that I have ever heard of. His life stories will help describe the qualitative effects of child abuse. “’You’ve made child, abuse, children, abused, think, being, one, mother, anyone, through, study, people, just, harm, david, number, neglect, called, tell, put, incidence, emotional, way, standard, problem, physical, person, pelzer, nis-3, increase, even, cannot, time, thing, show, should, physically, help, gone, estimated, done, been, because, another, win, treated, today, thought, someone