FREE ESSAY ON CHILD ABUSE

CHILD ABUSE

Child Abuse 
Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, 
And unto thine own understanding lean not. 
In all thy ways know thou Him, 
And He doth make straight thy paths. 
(Proverbs 3:5,6, YLTHB) 
The statistics on physical child abuse are alarming. Of the estimated hundreds of
thousands of children battered each year by a parent or close relative, thousands die.
For those who survive, the emotional trauma remains long after the external bruises have
healed. Communities and the courts recognize that these emotional hidden bruises can be
treated. Children who have been abused may display a poor self-image, Inability to depend
on, trust or love others, Aggressive and disruptive-sometimes illegal-behavior; Passive
and withdrawn behavior; fear of entering into new relationships or activities, School
failure, Serious drug and alcohol abuse. The child and adolescent psychiatrist is able to
treat the whole child-medical as well as psychological or 
emotional problems that have occurred as a result of the abuse. The family can be helped
to learn new ways of support and communicating with one another. Through treatment, the
abused child begins to regain a sense of self-confidence and trust. Child abuse is a
matter of degree: the degree to which a parent uses inap-propriate or excessive control
strategies with a child and/or fails to provide standards of care giving. In fact,
abusive parents often do not know they are abusive. Our culture has, for generations,
used corporal punishment as a means of controlling child behavior. Some parents think
society places no restraint on such techniques. Many may recall the old saying, spare the
rod and spoil the child. It is not always clear what the limits are in efforts to get a
child to behave. The best way to stop the child abuse and stop the abusive parents from
abusing their children is by forming a non-profit organization working in cooperation
with U.S. Dept. of Welfare , a resource for children and families to report a child abuse
and to search for the abusive parents and put a penalty on them. These type of
organizations have worked considerably good in the other fields and I am sure that this
solu-tion will work out fairly well. In this Article  The goal of NCMEC, The National
Center for Missing and Exploited Children states that 
The goals of the NCMEC: 
A private, non-profit organization working in cooperation with 
the U.S. Department of Justice, NCMEC is a vital resource for 
families and America's 17,000 law enforcement agencies in 
the search for missing children and the quest for child 
protection. 
In 1986, six youth and adult survivors of child abuse and neglect formed what has become
a 
nation-wide movement, the National Child Rights Alliance, which is the only national
organization 
directed entirely by youth and adult survivors of abuse and neglect. (Non-abused
supporters are 
important to our work as well.) This is the Same Kind of Organization which is working
for child abuse pre 
vention and is going very well. 
Parents can help prevent abuse if they monitor their own behavior by checking to see the
effect stress has on them. If you see you are losing patience easily and that it is
interfering with proper supervision of your child or children, you should search out
professional help and counseling. Parenting abilities can be seri-ously challenged by
personal stress-related problems. Professional assistance from psychologists and other
trained counselors could prevent child abuse. 
Remember, child abuse is not restricted to violent behavior and the long-term effects of
child abuse and poorparenting can last a lifetime. 
November 19, 1996