CHILD ABUSE ACROSS CULTURE

Child Abuse across Culture



Child Abuse across Culture

Child abuse is a social problem that affects millions of children each year. Not only does child abuse have multiple societal repercussions, but also individual repercussions that produce lifelong scars. There are many forms of child abuse; sexual, physical, verbal, and emotional. Some of the facts presented in this paper will be painful to absorb. That does not change the fact that these problems must be addressed. It has been reported that one out of three girls, and one out of seven boys are sexually abused by the time they reach the age of 18. The most prevalent form of child sexual abuse is now recognized to be, incest. A study that showed approximately 27% of the women in every state of the union, and 16% of the men said they had been sexually abused as children. Child Abuse Laws Child abuse. Two words that should never have to be seen side by side. Yet, child abuse is very much a reality in this world.

The World Health Organization (WHO) states that risk factors for child maltreatment, as for all other forms of violence, occur on multiple levels ranging from biological and individual-level factors (such as sex, age and pre-maturity on the part of victims, and a history of being abused and of substance abuse on the part of perpetrators), to societal level risks such as socio-economic inequalities, the strength of the social welfare system and the impact of larger social conflicts and war. As for other forms of violence no single risk factor is by itself sufficient to predict being abused or becoming an abuser, and therefore prevention is most likely to be effective if it targets multiple levels of risk simultaneously.

Compiling lists of general or culturally relative risks is a ...