Dysfunctional Caregivers

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Children learn how to behave from their caregivers. When dysfunctional caregivers give an unhealthy verbal or nonverbal message, the message of the caregivers become part of the children’s own opinion of themselves. The behaviors of grandiosity and arrogance come from a family that teaches the children to find faults with others. If caregivers treat their children as if they do not make mistakes or all mistakes that they make are the parent’s fault, they give the child the idea that they are perfect when in all reality they are “perfectly imperfect”.
Such children are sometimes scolded and shamed by their caregivers or other individuals because of their arrogance and grandiosity. This can lead the child to feel as if the whole world is against …show more content…

Children’s childhoods are destroyed and never usually something remembered as joyful. They lose the sense of who they are. Sexual abuse includes intercourse, oral sex, anal sex, an adult masturbating a child or the other way around, sexual hugging, sexual kissing, sexual touching known as fondling, and making a child behave in a sexual way. There isn 't an exact age limit to who commits sexual abuse. It can be other children older or younger than the victim. This can be teenagers, other children, and adults. There are two types of sexual abuse - contact abuse and non-contact abuse.
Contact abuse is when a child is touched in a sexual way or forced to get involved in sexual activity with another individual. Over 90% of those who were sexually abused were abused by someone they know. Those who cause the abuse can be an older or younger sibling, a family friend, a parent, an adult caregiver, another child such as a school friend, or a teenager. Non-contact abuse can also happen to anyone. Non-contact abuse can be grooming and exploiting children or persuading children to perform sexual acts over the internet and send sexual images of