Essays on Child Abuse

Abuse is the maltreatment of one person by another. Any abuse regarding a child involves the child being 18 years or younger and any abuse regarding an elder or an older adult is someone age 60 or older. Many individuals believe that abuse only involve…

Introduction Apart from the physical damages, our generation is badly being a victim to mental abuse. The article focuses on the damages and the gap between the adults and children of the era. The Raising Awareness In today’s era, the subject of child abuse is…

Introduction The Child Welfare Policy and the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) help protect children and provide families with the support they need to care for their children. The policy addresses child abuse and neglect, fostering, and achieving family reunification for children leaving…

Introduction Foster care is a multifaceted service serving children who have experienced mistreatment or negligence, their birthparents and relatives, and their foster parents. Children in foster care may stay with unconnected foster parents, with kinsfolks, with families who plan to take on them, or in…

Individuals that are affected by abusive adults are children who parents have been abused. Parents that have been abused may have experienced physical and sexual abuse, emotional maltreatment, neglect or have possibly witnessed domestic violence throughout their childhood. There are many factors that has an…

Introduction African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child (Article 2) adopted in July 1990 defines a child as every human being below the age of 18 (Kalme, 2009). Children are abused each and every day by strangers, their parents, relatives, teachers at…

As the last child of a mother of three, you would expect to be treated as a baby. Never in a million years would I think my own flesh and blood would ostracize me. Every flashback causes my skin to turn turkey white. Recollection of…

Summary Question 1: This articles captivates the reader on the demoralizing issue of child abuse with many unknown facts and statistics that most people would be surprised to learn. The article deducts that the two most reasonable explanations for why most aren’t informed of this…

I’ve been reading about child abuse frequently, not once has an article about child abuse that does not come my way. I’ve read a lot on Facebook and news articles that children are secretly being abuse behind closed doors and many of us are completely…

According to the UNICEF website (2018), child marriage is a still existing world-wide problem. Child marriage can be defined as a formal marriage of a child younger than 18 years old. Both boys and girls can be involved, however, it affects girls to a much…