Child abuse is very serious in the United States.  A child is abused because people think they should act older then what they really are. They are usually punished for things they can’t control. Most adults punish their children for things they are going through. Most of the time, abuse happens when the person is angry.  Abused children often don’t have any values, angry, depressed, or don’t like to be around others. Abuse is considered physical abuse, emotional, and sexual.

            Physical abuse contains: severe beating, bite marks, burns, scalding, bruising, and broken bones. Children that are physical abuse usually wear long sleeves to cover up all the bruises and welts. Most parents will not send their kids to school after they beat them, so the school officials wouldn’t see it. When a mother shakes her baby too much, it usually ends up developing shaking baby syndrome. Shaking baby syndrome is when a baby is symptoms that come about from violently shaking the head of a baby. The degree of syndrome comes from the force of the shaking. The symptoms are seizures, vomiting, and lethargy.

            Emotional abuse happens when the parent neglects the child all together.  Emotional abuse also happens, when the child is exposed to spousal abuse. Some parents give the child alcohol and drugs to shut them up or relax them, to make them go to sleep. Some parents keep their child away from other kids and contact with others. When they are kept from people, they don’t know how to act and don’t know what to do with in the situation.  Children need different needs from their parents and needs to be showed affection. Children need to be showed love and receive love from them.

            Sexual abuse is when babies and children are touched in areas where they aren’t supposed to be touched. It is when children are touched in genitals, masturbation, oral-genital contact, digital penetration, and vaginal and anal intercourse. Some sexual abuse is not physical. They abuser can show them pornography, voyeurism, and noncontact abuse. Most children are abused by their very own family. Physical indicators of sexual abuse is difficulty walking or sitting, torn clothing, stained or bloody underwear, pain or itching in the genital area, venereal disease, and pregnancy. When a child cries or throws a fit to stay with someone that usually indicated some type of sexual abuse. When a parent or adult is sexual flirting or saying explicated statements around the child, it tells you something is going on.  When a child is abused as kid, they usually turn out hating the opposite sex. This in turn makes their life hard and some people don’t understand them.

            The summary of this topic is any abuse toward a child is wrong. Child abuse and neglect not just a crisis for the child; it is a dilemma that affects all of us. This shows you how far people will go to hurt a child. If a person will do it once, most likely they will do it again. I know for sure in experience that a woman forgave her husband once, when he abused some little girl. Twenty years do the road; they were adopting a young boy. The wife one day notice that the little boy always acted weird in front of the man. When she confronted the boy, he said, “that the man touched him in place and made him do horrible acts,” then she knew for sure it was happening again. Someone found out about the situation and turn the man in. Now, he is in prison for forty years serving a life sentence. This article is interesting to me, because of what I seen in the world with child abuse. If I could say anything to anyone about child abuse it would be to report the person. The child will be better off in the future if it is stopped now.  Take action now, don’t wait.