The Consequences Of Physical Child Abuse

Abuse usually occurs due to poverty, lack of education, marital problems, changing of environments, family violence, and lack of support from family members, loneliness, social isolation, unemployment and many other factors which also relates to non-accidental incidents by caregivers, parents, older adolescents or other adults that is not within the norms of conduct and whom necessitates a considerable risk of inflicting physical or emotional harm to a child. Incidents like this can be un-intentional but other people also intentionally abuse their child which includes commission and omission. Instead of coming home to a safe environment, 40,844 children are abused. Evidentially child abuse is a very serious contemporary issue which has acquired many legal and non-legal

Physical abuse impacts children with both long-term and short-term consequences (Department of Communities, Child safety and Disability Services, 2017). These consequences of physical abuse vary across individual’s effects aren’t always visually displayed by children. Consequently, the more severe effects of physical abuse occur when there is no intervention to prevent the abuse from reoccurring and no effort was made to protect the child (Department of Communities, Child safety and Disability Services, 2017). Physical abuse is experienced by approximately 40 million children worldwide every year (Odhayani, Watson, J., Watson, L., 2013). Occurring across cultures, ethnic backgrounds, educational levels and socioeconomic status (WHO, 2006).

Everyday there are children being abused by someone who is supposed to protect them. An estimated 905,000 children were victims of child abuse or neglect in 2006(Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2008). In 1996, more than three million victims of suspected abuse were reported to child protective services agencies in the United States (Baker, 2002). The numbers have changed and still many cases of abuse go unreported. The number of incidences of child abuse rises when the family is under stress, such as being in our economy. The effects of physical abuse can last a lifetime and are measured by the physical, psychological, behavioral, or social outcomes. Normal physical abuse scenario involves a parent who loses control and lashes

The safety and security of many children across the world are in danger due to physical abuse. Child abuse has been linked to an assortment of changes in the brain which result in psychological, behavioral, and academic problems. While it is unclear whether the population that had been maltreated as children is accurate, physical maltreatment in the first 5 years of life places a child at risk for a variety of psychological and behavioral problems during adolescence. The following three literature reviews attempts to prove and support the premise.

Considering the large number of children who are victims of child abuse, it is important to investigate not only the immediate effects of abuse, but also the long-term effects on the child’s well-being. Exposure to childhood maltreatment is a non-specific risk factor associated with many short and long term negative outcomes ranging from externalizing and internalizing behaviors, dissociative symptoms and self-harm behaviors, and adaptability and coping skills (Jackson, Gabrielli, Fleming, Tunno, & Makanui, 2014). When a child grows up in a home environment characterized by hostile interpersonal relationships, physical maltreatment, or neglect he or she is at risk for long-term developmental concerns regarding physiological, social, emotional,

Children are seriously suffering from this hidden epidemic of physical child abuse every day and the fatality rates are vastly excelling. By analytically identifying the contributing factors to the perception of physical child abuse in many diverse cultures and communities, major concepts related to the endangered lives of children and the impact of child maltreatment will be revealed in order to gain an understanding of this impending

Physical child abuse has grown very vividly within the recent years. When people think physical abuse, majority picture the beating of a child; however, physical abuse not only consist of kicking, biting, choking, throwing, pushing, burning, but anything that causes injuries to a child. On the daily new we hear about a child that has been neglected or abused by a caregiver. According to the Child Help National Child Abuse, one-third of all parents who were abused as a child, typically become abusers of their own children. Physical abuse causes a child to have psychological effects throughout their life.

Introduction 
 Through research, scientist's have found that child abuse has caused detrimental affects to a child’s growth and development. Verbal abuse, physical abuse as a child all lead to many complications when older. For the purpose of this social science report, the following research question was investigated, “ How does abuse affect a child's development?” The secondary resources used in this paper were experimental, descriptive, and finally co-relational. 

Descriptive research 

 This report entitled “ Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect” written by Child welfare in July 2013 was published on the child welfare website, it conducted comprehensive research on long-term consequences of Child Abuse

Each day the children are at risk of becoming victims of abuse and neglect by the hands of their guardians, caregivers, families and parents. The reality of child abuse and neglect is not a new phenomenon. Unfortunately, the rise of such injustice is becoming more prevalent. The magnitude of this problem is overwhelming to many professionals such as law enforcement, social workers, teachers and doctors. Throughout society child perpetrators have a long list of traceable history of problems, disputes and failures. The perpetrators come from all nationalities and their victims can be both boys or girls. Many institutions and agencies are seeking ways to help prevent children’s maltreatment while exploring the warning signs and providing

The paper will give an overview of the current environment of domestic violence and its impact to the children and will promote some special awareness to the children in the domestic violence and helping them to understand the risk factors of this violence and their responses when this violence occurs.

Abuse is mistreating which is experienced by adults. This may include violating a person’s civil rights as well as their person’s human. Any abuse may be different from each other and this includes treating somebody in a bad way by either physically harming them or psychological harming them. There are many types of abuse which may be experienced by adults. These include physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional or psychological abuse, neglect or acts of omission, exploitation/financial, discriminatory, institutional, bullying, self-harm and domestic violence or abuse.

Violence or in another word, abuse is a serious matter where these days it keeps increasing especially not just in working environment but also at home and in relationship where it supposed to provide the most happiness in the world for everyone. Generally, violence can be a domestic or international and when it comes to violence, the only ideas that come out of people mind are that it only involves physical and sexual since those two are the most popular cases that frequently reported in mass media but it is actually more than that, where all those types of violence and abuse will include these kind of behaviours such as manipulate, humiliate, isolate, blame, giving pain, bully or injuring someone. No matter what behaviours being projected, the main purpose of people doing this violence and abuse is to gain or

Child abuse is the physical maltreatment, or sexual molestation of a child, and can be divided into four kinds: physical, sexual, emotional abuse, and neglect. It is important to educate each other on this subject, because as the Child Protective Services (CPS) recorded in 2015, more than 683,000 cases of abuse were reported alone. Along with a death rate of 1,670 in the same year ("Violence Prevention"). It is also important to understand just how severe and hard the consequences of being abused are to live with. There are also four different kinds of consequences: physical health, psychological, behavioral, and societal. From these there are multiple harmful, and life threatening situations that no child should ever go through ("Child

Child Physical Abuse. (2015, September 19). Retrieved October 4, 2015, from http://www.americanhumane.org/children/stop-child-abuse/fact-sheet/child-physical abuse Glaser, D. (1995, October 28). Development after Physical Abuse in Early Childhood. Retrieved October 4, 2015, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/29729341

Family situations in which both parents are under mass amounts of stress and must work tediously to make ends meet are often inclined to have victims of child abuse in the home. Often because of troubled times economically parents reach a breaking point and enforce their anger onto his or her child, beating them physically. In many cases, parents take “teaching their child a lesson” to very high extremes, using the act of discipline to mask an act of physical child abuse. While many parents abuse under stress and frustration, some are too young or immature to handle the responsibilities of a child; not containing the capacity or patience to care for a young one often ends in abuse. As seen there many cases in which guardians cannot handle the tasks of parenthood, leading to acts of abuse. Whereas, there are also many cases in which parents suffer from disorders, increasing the probability of child abuse in a home.