Last Type Of Child Abuse Essay

The last type of child abuse is psychological. A study involving 60 children was done that looked at the following things. These things include parents that decline, disregard and are violent their children. For decline this includes things like screaming at, scolding, saying they are not smart, showing no affection, controlling their childs choices and making fun of. The children were asked to rate things in these categories as happens to them or does not happen to them. Next, disregard includes not being involved in important activities, not being involved in things with the family like game night and refusing medical care. Last, is being violent by saying bad things to the child, threaten to harm and ruin personal objects and mock in front

Second, for scolding it happens once and a while at 44%, not very often at 34%, common at 17% and does not happen to them at 7%. Third, saying they are not smart does not occur at all at 44%, not often at 29%, common at 15% and once and a while at 14%. For not showing affection 60% say it never occurs, 18% said not very often, 10% said once and a while and 12% said it was common. For controlling their childs choices 65% said it does not at all occur, 12% for both once and awhile and not very often and 10% say it is common. Next, disregard for not being involved in important activities is 28% say it does not at all occur, 27% say that it is common, 24% say once in a while and 22% say not very often. When it comes to not being involved in things with the family like game night 50% say this does not at all occur, 20% say it occurs once and a while, 17% say that it usually occurs and 14% say that it occurs once in a while. For refusing medical care, 87% say it does not occur, 10% say it occurs not very often and 2% for both being common and once in a while. Last, being violent shows 42% for does not occur at all, 29% for not very often, 19% for being common and 12% for occurs once in a