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What Does It Become Child Abuse?

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Child Abuse Is disciplining your child ok? To what extent does it become child abuse? Discipline your child is an everyday thing. What else would they know what not to do when your kick, slap, punch or even hot scolding bath/showers. It comes to the point where it needs to be controlled. There are other ways. Physical abuse Children are innocent human beings. Growing up they have to learn right from wrong. When they do something bad or not right you have to properly discipline them without hurting or scaring them. Standing over them, getting “in your face,” blocking a doorway, grabbing you before you leave, kicking, punching, biting, slapping, choking them is not the right way. It will just get them scared of you. Hitting your child is ok to a certain extent. Spanking them without scaring or bruising them is morally okay. For example, if your child punches you it is morally okay to spank them to let them know it is not the right thing to do. Another example is if your kid starts to back talk you, instead of getting in their face you can put them in time out or take away their toys to let them know it is not okay to back talk. Signs and symptoms ➢ Unexplained bruises, welts or cuts ➢ Injuries that tend to have a pattern to i ➢ Child might shy away from touch ➢ Child might be afraid to go home Emotional abuse Emotional abuse is a pattern of behavior by parents or caregivers that can seriously interfere with a child 's cognitive, social, psychological, and emotional

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