Childhood Abuse and Neglect Learning and Helping Strategy
Child abuse has become widespread and an endless calamity across our Nation—in God’s eyes it is a sin. Children that experience early childhood abuse and neglect come from all walks of life with no preset distinction of the income status, level of education, societal, religious conviction, or age groups. Many believe the background of violence in families is a repeated series due to an ex-abused becoming an abuser. Unfortunately, many people think that abuse has visible signs, however the truth is that abuse falls into different types: verbal, physical, emotional, neglect, and also sexual. Any form of abuse can be extremely overwhelming and devastating to any childhood—sadly a child may never overcome the damage from this early childhood experience. “One in ten children may be experiencing some form of neglect” (Daniel, 2015, p.86). Abuse in the form of neglect carriers higher long-term risk on mental, physical, behavioral, learning abilities, and emotional intellect (Daniel, 2015). Many victims of abuse hide within the vast shadows in anticipation of being
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Child protection start’s with the legal parent, but also extends to community members too—it is society’s moral obligation and responsibility. In society the elderly expects a level of respect from the upcoming youth. When adult members of a community get involved in helping prevent child abuse they are teaching tomorrows generation the importance of their existence too. Child abuse awareness begins with understanding the signs. What is child abuse and what does it look like? Child abuse is any action of maltreatment against a minor child that causes non-accidental verbal, physical, emotional, sexual exploitation, including neglect (non-care of physical appearance, unsupervised, emotional hindrance, medical attention, educational