Child_Abuse

Child Abuse Child Abuse Laws David A. delpezzso ABSTRACT Child abuse is a social problem that affects millions of children each year. Not only does child abuse have multiple societal repercussions, but also individual repercussions that produce lifelong scars. There are many forms of child abuse; sexual, physical, verbal, and emotional. Some of the facts presented in this paper will be painful to absorb. That does not change the fact that these problems must be addressed. It has been reported that one out of three girls, and one out of seven boys are sexually abused by the time they reach the age of 18. The most prevalent form of child sexual abuse is now recognized to be, incest. A study that showed approximately 27% of the women in every state of the union, and 16% of the men said they had been sexually abused as children. Child Abuse Laws Child abuse. Two words that should never have to be seen side by side. Yet, child abuse is very much a reality in this world. Unfortunately, to wish ! otherwise would be the same as to wish for a perfect world. We must do the best that we can as a society with the child, abuse, children, law, public, information, offender, under, out, one, act, year, reported, protection, national, laws, care, abused, , states, state, said, reasonable, person, parents, neglect, hiring, study, sexual, police, must, level, help, every, employer, each, designation, criminal, court, cases, case, been, agencies, about, volunteers, volunteer, types, scouts, risk, responsibility, register