Child_Abuse

Child Abuse Child Abuse Most people are inclined to believe that the home is the safest place to be; a place one can go to escape violence, discrimination, hate and all the injustices of the world, as well to protect our children from such injustices. But to millions of innocent children, it is sometimes a place of terror, fear, guilt, hurt and neglect. Child abuse and neglect are crimes that are difficult to rationalize, the capability and extent of damage that one human can inflict upon another, and more specifically, that a person can inflict upon their child. “Children of all ages and from a myriad of incomes, racial, religious, and ethic groups suffer from the many different forms of abuse, all harmful to their physical, emotional and psychological development and all require intervention of the Child Protective Services (CPS)” (Bender, “Child Abuse” 46). The types of abuse are physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, educational neglect, sexual abuse, verbal abuse, as well as mental injury, or emotional abuse. The maltreatment of children is often seen as punishment by the parent(s) as they are unable to decipher the difference between disciplinary measures and child abuse. This plays big role in the development mentally abuse, child, children, neglect, physical, sexual, violence, percent, one, parents, emotional, deal, and/or, way, out, injury, child’s, place, never, home, behavior, while, spanking, person, others, often, mental, maltreatment, family, failure, development, because, about, very, time