How Does Child Abuse Affected Mentally?

“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”-Herbert Ward. With long hours of research over this topic, I understand what child abuse is about and how they could change mentally. It is sad that people could do such a horrible thing to an innocent child and for them not to be able to feel safe in their own home, let alone their own family. Sometimes we forget about that child abuse happens every single day. Just because you do not see it, does not mean it does not happen. I have a better understanding of child abuse now and how harmful it can be to the child’s life and how it can scare them for life and they will never be able to live a normal life because of their horrible past. When you hear about child abuse, you probably want to

There are many types of forms of abuse there are mental, physical, verbal, and emotional; and they all are horrible in different ways. People show different ways to abuse the child, and none of this such be happening to an innocent person, when they never did anything wrong. When you abuse the child mentally, you get into their heads that they are not good enough for you or they always do something wrong. The abuser will mentally put the child into a state where they are mentally depressed, and they just want to give up and leaving them with no hope. After a drastic amount of time, their actions will become crazy and they wont be able to control it. Then there is a very serious type of abuse, physical. This abuse is very troublesome, they will punch you, kick you, or strangle you. People do different things to promote physical abuse to the child such as throwing things at you or they may use props like guns, bats, or a knife. Then there is verbal abuse, this type of abuse is where they will threaten you or try to isolate you. They will try to blame the child for their wrong actions that they do to them. They will

They don't mean to become the abuser, they can not help it because that is all they knew. They do not know what wrong from right, so they just do what they have learned or from what they have seen. They may think that there is nothing wrong with the way they raise the child because they do not know any better. They do not really know what they are doing wrong because they are just using what they learned or have experienced from their past life. The way they were tormented is probably the way they will treat their own child because that is the only thing they know. They do not really know what they need to do to fix their problem and preventing from happening in the future. They may abuse their children, so they will feel the same way they did when they were younger, so they do not feel so alone. They will want to share their feelings and be able to communicate with someone on the same level by abusing someone else. They may do that so they can show them what they felt like in their past and they can share something in common. After they get into this habit, they tend to be out of control with their actions. They will go to the extremes of abusing the child before they “accidentally” kill