Child abuse is the act of harming children by neglect, physical force, violence, sexual attack, or inflicting psychological or emotional distress. Child abuse is consisting of four types of child mistreatment such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. The abusers can be the parents or other family members, caretakers (teachers, babysitters), friends, and strangers.
             Physical abuse is the nonaccidental infliction of physical injury to a child. The abuser is a family member and more like to be a male. It involves a parent that loses control and lashes out at the child. Unexplained, suspicious bruises or other marks on the skin are typical signs of physical abuse such as bruises, cuts, burns, fractures, internal injuries, and extreme most cases death. Chronic physical abuse can result in long-term physical disabilities, including brain damage, hearing loss, or eye damage. The longer the physical abuse goes on, the more serious the impact (hitting, more severe bruises).
             The following are some of the behavioral indicators of physical abuse: the child is afraid to go home, frightened of parents or other adults, cautious of physical contact with adults, and overly agrees with the authority. They may experience feelings of low-self esteem, and depression, or maybe hyperactive and overly anxious. They experienced problems at home, school, among peers, and in the community. They are at a greater risk for mental illness, homelessness, crime, and unemployment which affects the community and the society.
             A rare form of physical abuse is Munchausen syndrome by proxy in which a caretaker, most often a mother, seeks attention by making the child sick. Another form of physical abuse is the "Shaken Baby Syndrome" a result of violent shaking or shaking of the head of an infant. The infant may experience seizures, permanent blindness or deafness, mental and developmental delays or retardation, coma, paralysis, and de...