Child_Abuse

Child Abuse CHILD ABUSE: AN EXPLANTION Child abuse is the physical or emotional abuse of a child by a parent, guardian, or other person. Reports of child abuse, including sexual abuse, beating, and murder, have jumped in the United States and some authorities believe that the number of cases is largely under reported. Child neglect is also included in legal definitions of child abuse to cover instances of malnutrition, desertion, and inadequate care of a child's safety. When reported, inadequate foster care services and a legal system that has trouble accommodating the suggestible nature of children, who are often developmentally unable to distinguish fact from make-believe, complicate child abuse cases During the years of 1985 and 1996, there was a 50 percent increase in reported cases of child abuse. In 1996, three million cases of child abuse are reported in the United States each year. Also that same year some twelve hundred children died from abuse across the country. Treatment of the abuser has had only limited success and child protection agencies are overwhelmed. Recently, efforts have begun to focus on the primary prevention of child abuse. Primary prevention of child abuse must be equipped on many levels abuse, child, parents, children, care, neglect, health, services, prevention, society, important, community, social, include, help, cases, states, programs, preventing, national, home, been, united, support, skills, should, reported, percent, people, panel, one, levels, family, families, age, years, treatment, system, result, problems, prevent, parenting, needs, might, leaders, increasing, child's, behavior, 1996, year