As children, we all have dependency on an authority figure, a parent, the law, a teacher of another relative. Wee look up to the authority figure, knowing that any small problem one has can be swiftly taken away from one's sight and shoulders. That authority figure is a child's training wheel for his or her up coming adult life. When the authority figure one looks up to break the trust cycle and love with abuse the child is face with reality rather than his or her fairy tale world that's expected of him or her. This causes the child to up faster and send reality crashing down, and being at the young age one is unable to understand the rawest of reality. Abuse impacts a child's future socially, emotionally and physically.
             Socialization is critical in a child's life. It teaches on how to interact with others, certain survival skills and most of all being social lets a child be a child. That carefree attitude that one possesses is what gives a child the necessary courage to experience certain things about oneself and the world around him or her. It shapes his or her upcoming character as an adult. Abuse can shatter all the courage in a split second. It forces the child to lose friends, either by ones choice or by the offenders' choice. This causes the child to alienate herself to total destruction not having anyone or anywhere to escape to. It may lead the child through either a positive or negative after shock. The child may recognize abuse as a negative action and correct it, either by looking past it and forgiving and moving on to helping others with the same fear. He also may choose not to pass the same fear onto his or her own children. The child may also recognize it again as a negative effect but chooses to ignore and correct it later on in life. Most children live in a dream world and abuse may force on into a further dream state. The child may never awake to fully unders
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