Child Abuse And Neglect: Consequences

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Parents negative responses towards an event influences their child 's behavior. Child abuse leaves child with long lasting effects of injuries and physical illnesses. Parents that abuse their child typically come from abusive childhoods themselves. They commonly began to abuse because of unrealistic expectation, alcohol and drugs, lack of support, emotional disorders. The center for disease, control, and prevention stated in their article “Child Abuse and Neglect: Consequences”, “At least one in four children have experienced child neglect or abuse at some point in their lives, and one in seven children experienced abuse or neglect in the last year” (Center for disease, control, and prevention, 3). The abuse and neglection these kids suffer …show more content…

When they took the adults out and children in, they noticed something shocking. Author, Saul McLeod, explained “Children who observed the aggressive model made far more imitative aggressive responses than those who were in the non-aggressive or control groups”, proving that children are likely to imitate behavior (Mcleod, 16). Kids will model behavior they see in their parents as they see them as a role model. If parents act negatively to their child or an event, it is likely that the child will act the same exact way. By providing support groups for parents teaching them how to care for a child, the rates of abuse may decrease. A child 's environment teaches them how to act and portrays their future. Permissive parenting is a parenting style with low demands but high responsiveness in which most of the adults in the population are like. In the article “How do you affect your child”, written by Emily Hughes, explained, “The children of permissive parents have the ability to do just about anything they want, so they tend to be …show more content…

However when a parent becomes stressed and aggravated about a situation, it teaches their child how to cope with emotions in a similar situation. An article from U.S. News, written by Katie Hurley, explained that stress has a “Trickle-down effect” in families. The article also stated “kids are naturally curious and intuitive. They know when something is amiss and may expend great effort to understand the problem. Kids also tend to internalize that stress and react accordingly,” (Hurley, 3). Although parents may try their best to keep their child away from their problems, it’s nearly impossible. Parental stress is dangerous to kids and can lead to detrimental damages including coronary disease and even cause you to obtain more bad habits. The damages of stress on a child start at a young age, adolescence, which is a time where the child began to learn and grow. Alice Walton explained in her article that stress can cause brain changes which includes turning on and off certain genes based on a child environment. Walton stated “One study last year found that when parents are significantly stressed during their child’s first few years of life, some of the children’s genes – involved in insulin production and in brain development – were affected even years later, in adolescence,” (Walton, 5). Children are known to act like sponges, absorbing all the information they possibly can. By teaching your child