Child Abuse Case

Child abuse

= A physical, sexual or emotional maltreatment or neglect of a child or children.

4 Main different problems;

- Neglect

- Physical abuse

- Emotional/Psychological abuse

- Sexual abuse

Neglect

1) Fail to meet with child’s basic need.

- Doesn’t provide the child with enough foods and drinks, appropriate clothes and a safe shelter.

2) Fail to provide their children an education

- Even in our country, there’s a law that commanding a parents to provide an education for their child when their age has reached an appropriate age for an education.

3) Emotionally neglecting their child

- Ignoring their children on purpose when they are calling for attention.

- Calling their child names in order to mock them.

4) Fail to provide a proper health care for their children

- Doesn’t bring their child to the hospital on purpose when they’re sick and doesn’t bring them to medical checkup.

Physical abuse

= Non-accidental trauma or physical injury caused by punching, beating, kicking, biting, burning or otherwise harming a child, physical abuse is the most visible form of child maltreatment.

= Sometimes caused by excessive or inappropriate physical discipline

= Usually done by parents (including stepmother/father) or caretaker

Factors of physical abuse;

1) Parents’ immaturity

- Some of the abuser are hitting the children for fun and some of them aren’t even ready to become a parent.

2) Short tempered parents

- When the father with short tempered problem cant stand the cries of the baby, he begins to hit the baby until the baby becomes quiet.

3) Lack of parenting skills

- When a parent get married at a young age and doesn’t ready to become a parents, they may begin to do some abuse activity like hitting the children as a form of scolding. It is also influenced by unwanted child. When the parents doesn’t want to touch the children because they aren’t a legal child.

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