What Are The Types Of Child Abuse And How To Prevent It?
Posted on Oct 15, 2007 | Comments 5
Child abuse is doing something or failing to do something that result in harm or injury to a child.
An abuser is who fails to nurture the child, physically injures the child, or relates sexually to the child.
There are different types of child abuse. Among which the four major types are:
- Emotional abuse
- Physical abuse
- Neglect
- Sexual abuse
Emotional child abuse:
Emotional child abuse is one of the most common and harmful forms of child abuse. Emotional abuse is any act or behavior or failure to act that disturbs your child’s mental health or social development.
This act can range from a simple verbal insult to an extreme form of punishment. Emotional abuse is always found along with some other form of abuse.
Emotional abuse exists for longer periods and has negative psychiatric effects than either physical or sexual abuse. Hence emotional abuse can also be called as mental abuse, psychological abuse or verbal abuse.
Some of examples of emotional child abuse are: always finding fault, humiliating the child, name calling, and showing no respect can damage a child’s self-esteem.
Physical abuse:
Physical child abuse is causing an injury from physical violence. Some of the acts which cause injury include, burning, hitting, punching, pushing, burning with cigarettes, shaking, kicking, beating, scalding water or otherwise harming a child.
The signs of physical abuse are:
Repeated injuries, Burns, Bruises, shaking a child can cause head injuries, inducing medical illness in a child, crying a lot, seem very tired, fear of adults, bite marks.
Neglect:
It is a very common type of child abuse. Most of the children suffer from neglect than from physical and sexual abuse. Signs of neglecting include not providing basic needs for a child, extreme hunger, and clothing unsuited to weather.
There are three types of neglect; educational neglect, physical neglect, and emotional neglect.
Educational neglect is failure to provide necessary education, or not enrolling a school-age child in school.
Physical neglect is the act of not providing food, appropriate clothing, and not providing proper medical care.
Emotional neglect is failure to provide love and affection. Neglecting child’s emotional needs and not giving psychological care.
Sexual child abuse:
Sexual abuse is really hard experience for children. It is the physical act between an adult and a child.
Signs of sexual child abuse are:
Some physical signs like difficulty while walking or sitting, genital pain, excessive aggression, seductiveness, difficulty in eating and sleeping, lots of crying and feeling sad, avoiding communication with others.
Preventing child abuse:
- Discipline your child without spanking. Never discipline your child when your anger is out of control.
- Protect your child from sexual abuse on the internet.
- Pay attention when someone shows greater than normal interest in your child.
- Adults should be attentive and caring enough towards all kids, not only to their own families.
- Establishing some prevention services like public education activities, family support programs, and parent education classes.
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child abuse widely prevails in the world and i believe the family institution is most responsible for it. if there is proper socialization of the child and care taking behaviour by the parents there are very few chances of child abuse specifically child sexual abuse.
Most compelling of all reasons to abandon this worst of all bad habits is the fact that child buttock-battering can be unintentional sexual abuse for some children. There is an abundance of educational literature, testimonies, documentation, etc available on the subject that can easily be found by doing a little research on the topic.
Just a handful of those helping to raise awareness of why child buttock-battering isn’t a good idea:
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Center For Effective Discipline
PsycHealth Ltd Behavioral Health Professionals
Churches’ Network For Non-Violence
The United Methodist Church (see General Conference 2004)
The LDS Church (see http://education.byu.edu/youcandothis/spanking.html click “Quotes on Spanking”)
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Global Initiative)
Parenting In Jesus’ Footsteps
Global Initiative To End All Corporal Punishment of Children
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Countries where child buttock-battering is prohibited by law:
Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria, Cyprus, Italy, Denmark, Latvia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Germany, Israel,Iceland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Spain, Costa Rica, Republic of Moldova, and more in process.
In fact, the US was the only UN member who did not sign the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Child buttock-battering vs. DISCIPLINE:
Child buttock-battering for the purpose of gaining compliance is nothing more than an inherited bad habit.
Its a good idea for people to take a look at what they are doing, and learn how to DISCIPLINE instead of hit.
I think the reason why television shows like “Supernanny” and “Dr. Phil” are so popular is because that is precisely what many (not all) people are trying to do.
There are several reasons why child buttock-battering isn’t a good idea. Here are some good, quick reads recommended by professionals:
Plain Talk About Spanking
by Jordan Riak,
The Sexual Dangers of Spanking Children
by Tom Johnson,
NO VITAL ORGANS THERE, So They Say
by Lesli Taylor M.D. and Adah Maurer Ph.D.
A good relationship involves respect, trust and acceptance. Healthy relationship starts on friendship. Keeping secrets is not acceptable in a relationship. A healthy relationship is open to all possibilities of changes and not afraid of difficulties along the way.
This information is very essential to readers especially to those parents who don’t pay proper attention and care to their kids. Punishing your child physically is not a healthy way just because you want to discipline them. It’s a no.. no.. for me because disciplining a child is not equal to physical abuse. As a result they will grown up differently compare to other child who are not abused. Abused child quotes as “has their own world” because they love to be alone and it’s hard for them to adjust people around them. Let’s discipline them in a calm and proper way and as much as possible avoid hurting them emotionally and physically.