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About
Child Abuse:
Definition of child abuse
- Child abuse is
behavior directed towards children that
results in harm or injury or that seriously interferes with normal
child development.
- Child abuse happens
when parents become
out-of-control with their anger and children are injured. This happens
in several ways. Examples are persistent verbal aggression and
criticism, inappropriate sexual behavior, physical aggression that
injures, and the omission of necessary care.
- Most children are
injured by people they know and who care
for them.
- Child abuse interferes
with healthy child development.
Children are forced to develop ways of coping with violence that limit
their functioning as teens and adults.
- Unfortunately, child
abuse is very common. It is estimated
that 3 million children are abused each year. Between 3 and 10 million
more witness domestic violence. Witnessing violence is traumatic for a
child.
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