l, and cognitive functioning to promote the best chances of survival. These adaptations later in life can cause the child to have behavioral problems due to more hormones being released into their bodies making them more likely to respond in an agitated way, or a possibly violently way. The longer the event, the less able the child becomes to distinguish between pleasure and pain. The child is taught that abuse can actually be pleasurable, this is because this is all the child grew up to know. This often resurfaces later in life in a circle of abuse, they a!
             re often in abusive relationships or abuse their own children.
             Because the brain is itself plastic, it can be re-taught. The earlier this is can be done the better because the older the child becomes the more set his way of thinking also becomes. This is because the majority of the brain structure happens during early childhood and by the age of three the brain will have reached approx. ninety percent of the adult brain size. Over the last twenty years, "investigators have determined that more than thirty percent of children exp
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