Child abuse is the physical or emotional abuse of a child by a parent, guardian, or other person. Reports of child abuse, including sexual abuse, beating, and murder, have jumped in the United States and some authorities believe that the number of cases is largely under reported. Child neglect is ...

Child abuse and neglect reports have more than doubled in the past two decades. Children are abused many different ways every day and many abuse and neglect cases go unreported every year. Some of the many ways children are the most commonly heard of ones: kicking, punching, and hitting. Some chil...

Child ABuse - Imagine for one moment that you are not yourself any longer. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cool autumn night and your parents have opted to attend a p...

Imagine for one moment that you are not yourself any longer. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cool autumn night and your parents have opted to attend a party whi...

Child Abuse: An Exposition By Dominic Ebacher Imagine for one moment that you are not yourself any longer. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cool autumn night and...

- Imagine for one moment that you are not yourself any longer. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cool autumn night and your parents have opted to attend a party...

Imagine for one moment that you are not yourself any longer. Visualize instead that you are a young girl; old enough to know right from wrong yet still young enough to be terrified by the dark shadows in your room. It is a cool autumn night and your parents have opted to attend a party, which you a...

Juvenile Boot Camps: Do They Need "Basic Training" in Humanity or a "Dishonorable Discharge" Themselves? Imagine this scenario: Little Timmy, who isn't so little anymore because he is six feet tall and sixteen years old, still hasn't outgrown his Attention Deficit H...

Chain of Events Instead of a headline reading, "A Young Boy was Shot by a Classmate," it would read, "Schoolboy Killed for Sneakers." Ironically enough, an autopsy report would never read, "Cause of Death: Sneakers." The fact remains that blaming does not solve pro...

Child abuse is an ever-spreading problem in our society today. The number of cases that involve physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and physical and emotional neglect have all risen significantly in the last few years. Specifically, the number of physically abused children has gone up fro...

Is bullying morally wrong? Children need to be informed about the impact it can have on the lives of everyone involved. Some parents have lost their children to suicide due to "bullying" or "Cyber Bullying", while siblings suffer the loss of losing a brother or sister. The psycho...

The impact of abuse reaches all levels of a childs emotions. The two most common emotions are confusion and guilt. Confusion is usually the initial reaction of the child. They will usually wonder what is going on or if this is right or wrong. For a young child these types of questions can be a hug...

Domestic Violence has long been recognized as a social condition among heterosexual couples, but only recently has it started to be acknowledged among homosexual couples. Heterosexuals are more focused on, but even then the women are the one perceived as the victim. For gay male couples, society bel...

Child Abuse More enforcement of penalties is needed to protect children from being abused in the United States. Child abuse is usually divided into four major types: Physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional maltreatment. Millions of children each year become victims of abuse. In &...

Sexual abuse is an area of human behavior which, when discovered, quite understandably often evokes extreme reactions, due in the most part to ignorance, fear, and guilt. It dramatically effects a child's learning ability in the classroom. Sexual abuse of children is not an occasional deviant a...