Child_Abuse

Child Abuse This report will examine the link between two concepts: parental alcohol use and child abuse/problems. Scholarly information sources overwhelmingly agree that as a parent/guardian increasingly uses alcohol, their child has an increasing chance of being physically/mentally abused and/or having more problems than children raised by non-alcoholic parents. The Mental and physical abuse variables result in sub-concepts such as: Serious coping problems, lower IQ and test scores, greater delinquency, higher depression, and negative self image. http://www.childabuse.com/fs14.htm Research on the connection between parental alcoholism and child maltreatment clearly indicates a connection between the two. 40% of all confirmed cases of child maltreatment involve the use of alcohol by the parent. Due to a study that found that there are 1.2 million confirmed victims of child maltreatment each year, it is estimated that 480,000 of these cases involve parents, children, child, alcohol, report, maltreatment, between, alcoholic, two, times, substance, study, research, problems, parental, parent, negative, million, likelier, involve, indicates, found, estimated, connection, confirmed, cases, alcoholism, abused, abuse, year, victims, variables, under, three, test