Child Abuse And The Long Term Effects

This book is about a kid named Bud that lost his mother as he tries to discover who his father is. Bud has been in numerous foster homes all the while in search for a better quality of living. Bud has been an orphan more times than he can count, and he wanted what any other kids wanted and that was to be loved and wanted. In the process, he meets several people along the way as he is on his quest to find his father based off a portrait his deceased mother kept over the years and that’s when the journey of self-validation really begins.

Many people wish for a loving relationship between themselves and a parent. A mutual trust that is not so easily broken or the chance to enjoy each other’s company. Dalton Trumbo tells a story about a father and son on a camping trip and the son’s fear that his father will be upset with the news the son must tell him. Through literary devices such as selection of detail, point of view, and syntax, Trumbo brings to life the loving relationship between father and son.

Profound in the love shared between the father and son, their sense of unity kept them pushing through the pain for “each the other’s world entire” (6). In a society painted by shades of grey, one cannot help but at times feel the desire to fade into the world full of suffering. In the father’s perspective “there were few nights lying in the dark that he did not envy the dead ” (230). However, the man is fortunate because he has a spark in his life that motivates him to keep going- the boy. Many others before the man took their own life in an attempt to rescue themselves from the doomed life ahead. However for the father, “the boy was all that stood between him and death” (29). The father possess such love for the boy that no matter what the situation is he will never take the easy route out. He will never put his own needs over the boy’s. He will never leave him to try to fend for his own. Furthermore, if the boy were to ever depart life before him he “would want to die too” (11), thus proving that the boy is the father’s incentive to carry on. With the love for his son in mind, the father is enabled to carry on with his life. During a difficult situation, love encourages one to see it to the

The book, ‘”the Lost Boy” is the second in a four book series written by David Pelzer, a man who turned his experiences of child abuse into an extremely successful autobiography. David’s mother and father were separated, and they had 5 sons together. There was no real indication as to of why his mother singled him out for attention. His father was around for the earlier years of his life, but he cared about having peace in the household more than he cared about one of his sons being beaten and abused by a psychotic mother.

There are significant signs of psychological trauma due to any kind of abuse. Children experience feelings of low self esteem and depression. Many exhibit behavioral problems including aggression towards other children. Other emotional problems include hostility, fear, humiliation and the inability to express feelings. The social impacts of physical abuse include inability to form relationships, poor social skills, poor cognitive language skills, distrust of others, over-compliance with authority figures, and tendency to solve interpersonal problems with aggression. (2008, p. 1). Verbal and physical abuse has a cumulative impact on children’s socialization. Abused children are caught in damaged relationships and are not socialized in positive, supportive way (Craig & Dunn, Ex.: 2010, p. 196). They learn defiance, manipulation and other problem behaviors that are used to escape any maltreatment. In turn they will learn to exploit, degrade and terrorize.

Child abuse, when hearing the word the first thing that comes to mind is a negative and horrific image. Our faces cringes and our hearts fill with sorrow, but what exactly is child abuse? well according to the state of Ohio Child Abuse is the abuse that represents an action against a child. It is an act of commission, generally abuse is categorized as follows: Physical abuse, Neglect, Sexual abuse, and Emotional abuse.

The conceptualisation of the long-term effects of child maltreatment reflects the surrounding circumstances which expose child abuse as a common event. Childhood abuse is a growing epidemic which evokes extreme emotional responses both privately and publicly and is viewed as a risk factor for an extensive variety of consequent problems. 2014 demonstrated that over 137,585 child abuse cases involving 99,210 Australian children were investigated (Australian Institute of Family Studies 2015). Abuse is categorised into neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse and emotional abuse. Contrary to the implied supposition that emotional abuse is less injurious in comparison to sexual and physical abuse, emotional abuse ranked as the most commonly substantiated harm type in Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Australia Capital Territory (AIFS 2015). Childhood abuse occurs throughout a period where complex and ordered changes occur within a child’s physiological, psychological and sociological being. The following report will accentuate how the state of flux instigated by childhood abuse leaves children susceptible harmful consequences that will pervert or prevent a normal developmental procedure. Through psychological and physiological wellbeing, adult delinquency and the effects on different genders readers will be able to identify the harmful consequences childhood abuse places on victims and survivors.

Dr. Steve Maraboli once said, “it is never pretty when you leave an abusive and controlling relationship. The warden always protests when the prison gets shut down.” In society today, there are different forms of well-known abuse: psychological, sexual, human trafficking and physical. No child has the will strong enough to endure the physical and mental pain abuse brings. Every child needs support and someone to nurture them but there are kids who endure abuse from parents, classmates and other adults. Children who are abused will become mentally unstable, develop disorders and are traumatized, therefore there should be harsher consequences to prevent abuse.

Adolescents in single-parent households that were probably subjected to abuse as a child may go on to exhibit similar behavior toward their children in the future. Eliana Gil, PhD, suggests that “some adults abused as children do become aggressors…By acting out the role of the abuser, they may be unconsciously trying to understand why the earlier abuse occurred” (Gil, 1988). This clarifies the fact that though the adolescents may not at first demonstrate violent behavior, they may expose this role of the abuser when triggered later in life. Abused adolescents become abusers of their children due to frustration caused by how they were raised as a child, what current situation they may be in, or difficulties in accepting behaviors of their spouse or children. Ultimately, the individual abuses the people that are closest to them, such as spouses and children. As this continues, resentment and tension is built up within the family and thus recommencing the abusive cycle throughout generations.

The goal of this paper is to review a few research articles and determine three key points. In what way are the perpetrators most/least likely to be caught? Are those that have been abused more likely to abuse their own children? And lastly, in what other ways does undergoing abuse as a child affect their life as an adult?

“Child abuse started in the 1980s” (bays) all the way until now. Child abuse has a long term and short term effect on a child who has been abused or still being abused by their parents or their care takers. Thiers many different types of child abuse, such as physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect. Information on child abuse and how to tell if the child is being missed treated inside their homes, and how to get help for the children.

This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff, a memoir about the life a young boy growing up in a broken family, is an extremely enjoyable book. I was assigned to read this book during my American Literature class, but it was so entertaining, that I would like to read it again on my own time. This book is essentially about how the character he tries to mature into, and how he reacts to the negative impacts that happen to him throughout his life. I very much enjoyed this book because it included real-life situations of social and financial statuses, broken families, abuse, and negative influences. Throughout all the negative influences that occurred to him in his life, he still made an effort to become the sophisticated boy he has always looked at himself

Domestic Abuse can be formatted into a cycle with six steps beginning with abuse, where the abuser initially lashes out and defines their role of power over the abused. The next step is the guilt of the abuser over what actions they had performed to harm the abused. The third step are the excuses that cover up what the abuser has done, excusing their behavior and

“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul” (Dave Pelzer). Children should spend their time playing not wondering when or where their going to get hit. This research paper is meant to inform people about how severe child abuse can be and what can happen to children once the abuse stops. In my opinion no one really knows how bad child abuse can be and why kids are afraid to speak out about it. Child abuse is hidden in the world and no child should be subjected to it.

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