Parents should be two people who love a care for their children, however some either have problems that can lead them to being less careless. Disciplining children should help them learn right from wrong, however abusing their own children makes them fear their own parent.
`“In 1997 an estimated 3,195,000 reported to child abuse,” (collected from 35, state) Child abuse is physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. As a result of this, some parents do not know the difference between discipline and abuse. Disciplinary spanking is not child abuse (child abuse 2004) Discipline is when a parent should use force, but cannot consist of wanting to cause death. (Fort Wayne, In) Children are usually put in time-out or a toy is taken from them. From others, some children are abused are usually kids whose parents lack jobs, have high levels of stress, and children’s parents who were abused as a child. “The main key factor to a child getting abused is when the abuser was abused as a child.” From (Disciplinary Spanking is
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Families more at risk of abuse are when a child is “socially isolated, when the family is poor, when the family has a history background of drug or alcohol abuse, and even violence.” (Incidence of Child Abuse). Children that are abused usually have marks on them either they are bruises, are usually signs of abuse. Other signs are kids who act out or kids who bully other kids. (Fort Wayne, In) However the cycle of abuse can be continuous or can be broken. Children grown up in a dysfunctional family are more than likely to end up the same way as their parents. Victims of abuse. The may suffer from effects such as anxiety, depression, truancy, shame, quilt or even have suicidal and homicidal thoughts, they may also become involved in criminal activity. (University Press