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Child Abuse
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Child abuse consists of any act of violence or misunderstanding that endangers or impairs a childs physical or emotional health and development. Child abuse includes any damage done to a child which cannot be reasonably explained and which is often represented by an injury or series of injuries appearing to be non-accidental in nature.
There four major forms of child abuse physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. Physical abuse is any non-accidental injury to a child. Sexual abuse is any sexual act between an adult and child. Emotional abuse is any attitude or behavior, which interferes with a childs mental health or social development. ...
Physical abuse has many forms. It may involve the hitting or kicking of a child with the fists or the feet, or with another object; such as belts, shovels, changes, ropes, electric cords, leather straps, canes, baseball bats, sticks, broom handles, or assorted large objects. Other forms of abuse include the pouring of scalding water or coffee on a child’s body, holding a child’s head under the water of a toilet bowl, stuffed into running washing machines, throwing a child against a wall, shaking a child with extreme force or placing parts of a child’s anatomy on hot or burning objects to cause pain.
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Title: Child Abuse
Words: 963
Rating: None
Pages: 3.9
submitted by: SWilliams
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