Persuasive Essay On Child Abuse

Misery, abandonment, and no love, how can one let a child grow up with thoughts so negative running through their minds? Children are removed from their homes, forced to live in strangers houses, and expected to behave like they live in a stable living environment. All this is occurring so fast, that they can’t process their situation and feel like they don’t have anyone in the world that loves them. Although our nation claims to be doing the best they can with child welfare, the entire program has focused their efforts on removing children from their homes instead of focusing on the child’s emotional needs. Mr. President, we need to fix this issue now because children are the future. When a family is torn apart because allegations of abuse, neglect, or financial issues, placing a child in foster care, rather than trying to fix the problem, can only further damage a child’s well being.

The United Nation’s convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) categorically states that anyone under the age of 18 is defined as a child with an exception, ‘under the law applicable to the child, the majority is attained’ (NSPCC, 2018).

Laws in most states mandate that reasonable efforts be provide to families who become involved with child welfare agencies.  Social workers, on behalf of the agency toil to provide reasonable efforts to families.  Presumptively, reasonable efforts are provided for families to mitigate the issues that brought them to the attention of child protection agency.

Everyday children under the age of 18 are maltreated. One out of eight children throughout the U.S suffers from either physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Unfortunately, emotional abuse is not even considered a maltreatment when people think of child abuse. When people think of child abuse the first thing they think about is physical or sexual. Now do not get me wrong, any abuse a child receives is a horrible inhuman like thing because every child is innocent and deserves to live the best life they possibly can live. Although, if we are being quite honest with ourselves nobody really notices this happens until it is mentioned later on when the child gets older. Which I do not blame anyone for because a child does not recall if something is good or bad until they have the ability to be aware of their environment.This is due to the fact that child abuse can start occurring at such an early age. This happens most during the development stage of the child because when a child is young it starts to absorb everything it sees and hears based on their surroundings. Basically, when they start noticing the difference from good or bad. The problem in this situation is that there is a high percentage rate of the youth who are diagnosed with mental disorders and are not being helped properly because most of the time the adults around them do not know how to help. The solution to this problem is simple, we should bring awareness to the main people in the child's life: their

Children are vulnerable, innocent, and unable to defend themselves. The United National Children's Fund, UNICEF, is a children’s charity. The UNICEF on the advertisement states that “8 million children are not in school” which is a large number of children that are not attending school. UNICEF is achieving their goals because it demonstrates people that many children in the world are not in school. Ethos, pathos, and logos are all necessary for a good advertisement, and this is an example of that. People know that when they see this ad, children need to attend school because it is essential. Food, shelter, clothing, and shoes are also necessary for life especially for children that live in developing countries and this ad is also representing this. Unfortunately, this problem exists in countries where poverty exists and is represented by this picture. The purpose of this advertisement is to convince people that without their help the organization would not be able to provide funds to the children to attend school in their countries.

It started out as any other day. Today me and my wife would make one of the biggest decisions in our lives. We were adopting a baby boy. We decided to adopt because there are so many children looking for their forever home. So many children that need a safe home. Also, I cannot have kids due to my diabetes, I wouldn’t live throughout the pregnancy. So, we found it safer to adopt.

According to the report from Dominica news online on December 9th 2016: “Thirty-seven- year-old Mathis Alson Woodman will serve 15 years in jail after he was found guilty for rape, incest and indecent assault.” Permitting the facts, “Woodman in November 2015 at Palm Groove brought his sister an isolated area and forced himself on her and had sex with her against her wishes. In its submissions, the prosecution stated that the use of force by Woodman on his sister was aggravating also the breach of trust and she was suffering from physical and emotional scares because of the incident.” Justice Victoria Charles-Clarke stated that “The incident has left an adverse effect on the sister who said that she wished that she was dead. She also claims to receive panic attacks whenever she thinks of it and “hates men” and is always traumatized whenever she passes in the area. She said that she is also being ridiculed by members of the family.” No! This must end! However, questions such as “How many more of my loved ones, need to suffer sexual abuse at the hand of their relatives?” Are still unanswered. Shouldn’t we as a society respond to cries of our children for instance “My Aunt struck me countless times for something petty as forgetting to wash the dishes and as a result, my skin became discolored and thus I couldn’t come to school.” By what means, should young people immerse themselves in depression and pain? Notwithstanding, that to cope is to commit suicide, to smoke or do drugs and drink beyond their limits. These are just a few of the questions that often bombard my mind as I myself incessantly encountered some of these circumstances. In the words of Shannon .L. Alder, “Your perspective of life comes from the cage you were held captive in.” Even so, my desire to free others from the world of silence and pain by means of creating a better Society increased, and hereafter I decided that I wanted to be a Social Worker. Still, the question rests, who are Social Workers and what role do they play in Society? Social Workers are persons who “help other individuals, families, and groups restore or enhance their capacity for social functioning, and work to create societal conditions that support communities in need.”

Many teens have killed themselves because of bullying. Bullying is a form of abuse that can be physical

Child abuse is defined in many different ways, and continues to be a problem in the United States regardless of laws put in place to defend children from their abusers. People mostly think that child abuse is only physical abuse which is not true. The different types of abuse according to Childhelp.org physical abuse “is hitting, kicking, shaking a child” these are the example of physical abuse. This is about the breakdown of the different child abuse and the outcomes it has on the child life. A child life can be impact many ways for an example depression, suicidal thoughts, how it can affect them in the future life, low self-esteem, really horrible flashbacks, and not being able to trust anyone in the future Though some may argue that hitting a child is a form of discipline, Child abuse has become a major issue in today’s society and needs to be addressed.

Dr. Steve Maraboli once said, “it is never pretty when you leave an abusive and controlling relationship. The warden always protests when the prison gets shut down.” In society today, there are different forms of well-known abuse: psychological, sexual, human trafficking and physical. No child has the will strong enough to endure the physical and mental pain abuse brings. Every child needs support and someone to nurture them but there are kids who endure abuse from parents, classmates and other adults. Children who are abused will become mentally unstable, develop disorders and are traumatized, therefore there should be harsher consequences to prevent abuse.

NFL running back Adrian Peterson’s recent arrest for allegedly abusing his four-year-old son has once again sparked the debate over whether spanking is an appropriate form of discipline. Though some contend any form of physical correction equates to child abuse, there is a giant chasm between a mild spanking properly administered out of love and an out-of-control adult venting their emotions by physically abusing a child.

In Flint Michigan More than 5,000 of Flint’s youngest children were put in danger when the city switched to a new water source, the Flint River, in the spring of 2014, causing lead from aging pipes to leach into the system. Many programs have been opened up in the city to get these children learning which Dr. Mona Hanna-attisha says, "The most important medication that I can prescribe to our Flint kids is early education." Sreenivasan, H. (2016, December 20). After Flint’s lead crisis, the ‘most important medication’ for kids is education. Retrieved November 2, 2017, from https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/flints-lead-crisis-important-medication-kids-educationThe University of Michigan, offers a mobile classroom that travels the city to provide services to students in the city of Flint. The classroom and its volunteers visit neighborhoods, community events, health fairs, churches, and other venues throughout the city of Flint. It was funded by a $3000,000 grant from the city of Flint. And, although the Children learn at school, this program promotes a sustainable community by providing children and the community a special place to learn outside of the classroom by promoting communication and participation from the community members. It also gives parents a place to interact with their children, provides high-quality play-based literacy, math, science, and social studies activities for young children in the communities most in need.

My freshman year of high school my Uncle was finally getting married. My family all flocked north to the foreign land of New Jersey, where you can’t even pump your own gas. Driving to New Jersey my only problem on my minds was memorizing the passage I had to read in the ceremony in front of my entire family, not listening to my family get into a heated debate about when giving to charity, how much was too little and what was too much to the point of idiotic. With the good news of the wedding reached my great uncle Wayne, he came out of hiding to join in the celebration. After the wedding ceremony and my excellent performance, we all drove to a house on top of a hill that overlooked New Jersey wildlife. I was wearing this ridiculous pink and navy blue dress that was so big in the bust I felt like I was swimming. My grandmother picked it out so my mom forced me to wear it. Now being 15 I was prompted to the adult table which seemed great not hearing kids fight over petty thoughts, boy was I wrong. Sitting between my grandparents and great uncle the only topic of conversation was obviously religion. After the 15 minutes of calm before the storm, my grandmother asked Wayne “What have you been up to?”. Those 6 words were the spark of a fierce argument which I would be dragged into.

All over the globe, organizations are taking a position on the rights for all youths to have connections to valuable schooling. Those who advocate for child education are formulated within communities, and throughout nationwide. Through different ways, organizations are making a statement, getting others to listen and they're performing a vital part in constructing and affecting education procedures.

According to multiple reports there has been numerous accounts of foster care placements said to be related to sex trafficking. This issue begins when children are involved with neglect and abuse from the biological parents, other cases are also situated with runaways and homeless teenagers. Children are placed by the court to foster care, these homes are state-certified as are the, caregivers. This is arranged to have the child feel more normal like. Some children have been adopted possibly due to extended periods of time when the child is brought into the home. While many cases are normal others tend to lead to sex trafficking, this “Criminal Business” profits from enslaving these young children for sexual servitude and forced labor. This “Business makes on average $32 billion worldwide and growing” [Nick Vivion] a leading crime in America, second would be drugs or drug smuggling possibly relating to the trafficking. These adolescents are removed from their abusive or neglectful parents, placed in foster care to be a part of this major issue (not by choice) in the United States, the students/children need help from schools and communities’ whole to react to this before more futures continue to be ruined.