1. CHILD ABUSE
Child abuse is defined as intentional acts that results in physical or emotional
that harming the children. Nowadays, we always hear about child abuse and there
are many children being abuse every year. There are many different forms of abuse
and many people do not realize them. They included physical, emotional, neglect
and sexual abuse.
First of all, let’s go to the physical abuse. Physical abuse is a physical injury
which can cause a result such as punching, beating, kicking or otherwise that
harming the children. Such injury is considered abuse regardless of whether the
caretaker intended to hurt the children. Forms of physical abuse included acts of
violence which are deliberate and can injured or sometimes kill the children. Signs of
the abuse likes broken bones and burn marks on child`s body.
Next, let’s we proceed to the emotional abuse. Emotional abuse is a pattern of
behaviour that impaired a child`s emotional development. This may included
constant criticism, threats or rejection as well as withholding love, support, and love.
Emotional abuse can be difficult to pin down because there are no physical signs to
look for. Emotional abuse generally occurs when the yelling and anger go too far or
when a parents constantly threatens or dismissed a child until a child`s feelings are
broken.
After that we go to neglect. Neglect is defined as a type of maltreatment that
refers to the failure to provide needed age appropriate age. Neglect can be in
physical and educational. Physical neglect included not providing adequate food or
clothing, appropriate medical care and proper weather protection such as protection
from rain and heat from sun. While educational neglect included failure to provide
appropriate schooling or special educational needs and and allowing excessive
truancies.
Last but not least, we proceed to the sexual abuse. Sexual means the
involmentary of developmentally immature children or adolescents in sexual
activities. Sexual abuse is any misuse of children for sexual pleasure or gratification.
This sexual abuse included activities by parents or caretaker such as rape and
exploitation through prostitution or the production of pornographic materials.
As the conclusion, prevent is better than cure. Child abuse leads to many bad
effects not only for children that are being abuse but also the person who abuse the
children. We should prevent it from getting worse as the children today will be a
leader for tomorrow.