Child Abuse's Negative Psychological Effects On Children

Every ten seconds a child abuse report is made (“Tennyson Center for Children”). These reports usually include one of the five types of child abuse, physical, sexual, verbal or emotional, medical, and neglect, verbal abuse being the least reported. As children, kids tend to look at their parents as an example of who they want to be and for emotional support, but when love and parental power are manipulated, dangerous and permanent scarring can . While physical abuse is the most reported, emotional abuse is the most common among households and is an unknown type of child abuse that causes many negative psychologically effects on children.

Emotional abuse, or verbal aggression, is defined a deliberate abuse of power by taunting, shaming, belittling,

If a child is always put under mental stress, especially by their parents, psychological problems start to arise. Some common mental health issues include bipolar depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, eating disorders, etc. Many parents will not see the changes in their children, especially if they are in the middle of attitude changes from childhood to adolescence. Most parents will usually blame puberty for the changes in their child’s behavior. Another thing that parents do not notice is the act itself, the abuse. Verbal abuse is usually something learned, so if a parent is verbally being abusive towards their child it may because they too were verbally abused by their parents. This is a nonstop cycle of mental disorders and child

Verbal abuse, while common, is not advertised as much as it should be. A victim, of unknown verbal abuse, was interviewed. This victim made a statement of when they spoke to their therapist they were told that they had been emotionally abused. This person did not know that someone could be verbally or emotionally abused. When this victim laid out their life for the therapist and the idea that they might have bipolar disorder, they were told that they had been severely verbally abused as a child and that that was the reason why they could not commit to anything, why they experienced mood swings, and why they always ran away from open arms. The person who abused this victim was their father. Their father does not know nor see the wrong in his doing. This 'abuser' can be described as a narcissist- someone who has high admiration for themselves, believes they are always in the right and have no empathy for others. Child abusers are one of two types of people, the aware and the unaware. The aware are those who know they are intentionally doing harm. The unaware are those who are blinded by their actions and cannot see the wrong in their