Child Abuse



Child Abuse

Introduction

Child abuse can be expounded as the physical, emotional, and sexual mistreatment as well as negligence of the child. In simple words, the child abuse is the maltreatment with the child under the age of eighteen years old by parents, guardians, care takers, or anyone who lives around and works with children. The child abuse causes to harm or injure the children which can be physical abuses such as burns, or broken bones, emotional abuse which includes belittling the child or calling them with weird names that hurt them, and finally the sexual abuse which includes touching of private parts of the child. Child maltreatment also includes the negligence from the part of parents or care takers where they are failed to provide the children with their basic needs and even fail to adequately supervise them.

In short, this study intends to expound the child abuse in detail with its types, epidemiology, and statistics based on the recent data extracted from the CDC site. The study also endeavors to determine the approaches to address such children and how effective is the multidisciplinary team approach as compared to the non multidisciplinary team approach in order to deal with alleged children.

Discussion

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines the child abuse or negligence as the act of commission or the omission by care givers of the children that cause to injure, or harm (Kronskosky, 2013). There are four key types of child maltreatment that are described as following (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2011):

Physical Abuse: it includes hitting, beating, human biting, burns, cracking or breaking bones, shaking, and strangulations.

Psychological or Emotional Abuse: this includes acts that deliver the children that they are worthless, un-wanted and flawed. It also reflects the continuous disapproval and belittling of the child.

Sexual Abuse: it includes touching of private parts, fondling, sexual intercourse (oral and anal sex), and pornography.

Negligence: this indicates the carelessness on the part of parents in providing the child with the adequate love, security, supervision as well as basic necessities such as food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education.

Child Maltreatment Statistics

The violence against children or adolescent is extremely common in the contemporary world. It is now common news that children have been seriously neglected by the parents, teenager involved in the abusing relationship and the child is tortured by the care takers. The incidents of child abuse or neglects have been staggering ...