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Barriers Of Child Abuse

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Imagine being a young child who is naïve, who is innocent and as pure as they can get. Now imagine being that same child who is fearful, who is getting abused both physically and mentally and not being able to grasp why this happening. The subject of child abuse is serious as to that affects millions of children every year. Child abuse can happen directly from the parents, siblings, family friends, neighbors, etc. In this paper the reasons from where child abuse stems such as poverty, mental illness, addiction, and sexual abuse will be discussed along with the barriers that that child welfare employees face when it comes to helping children who are being abused. Every minute, and every second a child is being abused. What is the reasoning behind this abuse? Why does it occur? One of the reasons child abuse occurs is because of poverty. Parents who find themselves in poverty tend to take care less of their children. According to Faulkner (2004), “Child abuse reports, during the last two decades, have more than quadrupled. And these numbers are not evenly distributed among the overall population but are alarmingly concentrated among children who are poor” (Faulkner p.104). Poverty can unfortunate put on a big strain for families. When a family is suffering financially they are emotional, they don’t think straight, and unfortunately sometimes the children suffer because of this. Although the children do not deserve it the parents look at it as a way of escape because they

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