Child Abuse
Dear Grade I Parents,
Child abuse has been on the rise for the past few years. I want to bring to your attention that it is wrong to abuse a child emotionally, physically or sexually. The government and local administration have put in place stern actions that would be taken to the people who are abusing children. As the parents and also the caregivers to children, it is your responsibility to ensure that children in the society do not undergo any form of abuse (van 374). Some of you, the parents, are known for putting children through some experiences without knowing that these are forms of child abuse. Child abuse needs to be prevented and stopped as its long term consequences can stagnate the cognition and psychological development of your children.
My friend Roy went through child abuse when he was only five years. His childhood memories are filled with an angrily loud household. His mum used to scream at him for the slightest mistake that he did and calling him with funny names. At one instance, when they were supposed to leave for church, Roy misplaced his shoes, upon telling his mum, she yelled at him that he did that purposefully so that he could not attend the church service. While they were still on our way to church, she kept yelling at him, making him feel demoralized. Roy did not realize how much his mum’s yelling had affected his social wellbeing. When Roy was transferred to another school, he got bullied, when he reported it to his mum, she told him that it was healthy to be bullied in a new school. Roy believed and felt that he was less than others. Roy is in his adulthood right now but still battling the feeling till today. In some instances, Roy joined the school swimming team and was among the students who were supposed to compete at the nationals. He informed his mum with excitement, hoping that she would support him. Instead, she yelled at him as usual and shuttered his dreams. Roy describes his mum as a nice person, but the problem comes when she gets angry, in his entire childhood Roy spent it being yelled at by his mu
Child abuse has a lot of impacts on the growth and development of a child. In my friend’s story, he experienced some mental health problems like depression and fear. Parents, Roy’s case can seem to be lighter. When you expose your children to such abuses, they might experience some consequences like developmental and learning problems. Your child’s academic performance can be affected when you maltreat your child. Abuse in the child’s early life can hinder a child from developing practical learning skills, thus poor performance when it comes to academic activities. When your children are abused continuously, they can end up being traumatized. “It might come as a surprise to many in 2020, but, before 1980, the notion that traumatic experience alone could be a major source of psychological difficulty was barely recognized” (Steve 3). Do not let your children suffer psychologically as a result of you abusing them or your partners abusing them. When you allow for their abuse, their academic performance will deteriorate.
When you abuse your children, they will resolve into taking alcohol and substance abuse when they are in their youth and adult life. Studies show that every kind of child abuse is linked to high rates of substance abuse. Your children would believe that the drugs would help them relieve stress and control their emotional and physical wellbeing (Toth, Sheree & Jody 59). The abuse that these children go through increases their chances of abusing their children when they become adults. Child abuse is always replicated across generations via increased use of substance and alcohol abuse.
The children would develop some behavioural problems in adolescence and childhood stages of development when they are abused. Parents, please save your children from depression, withdrawal, isolation, and at some point, sadness. These external behaviours can make your child hyperactive. When you abuse your children in their entire childhood, they would have more behavioural problems when compared to the ones that are abused in one or two stages of their developmental stages. These children have higher chances of imposing pain on others and developing violent and aggressive behaviours in their puberty period.
When children experience abuse, they will run away from home. You will be looking for them and begging them to come back, but they would have already made their mind. It may cost you and also more time to take them back. Abusing them would make them feel that when they run away from home, they would find solace with other children who are going through the same experience. Your children may resolve to unhealthy sexual behaviour and end up getting pregnant at tender ages.
Parents, you can help in preventing child abuse from homestead level. You should raise awareness of each other on how to raise your children without subjecting them to any form of abuse. You can prevent child abuse by nurturing their children in the career life they have chosen. You should know that every child is special in his/her way. Whenever the need arises, there are hotlines that you can call to be provided with resources to raise your children appropriately. Each of you should learn about parenting strategies and childcare. Learn to help each other out when your fellow parent is not financially stable, learn to support each other so that the children can be raised in the based way.
You should support your children as they are imitators of what you do. Children usually learn some habits from you, and they see you as their great role models. When you as the caregiver abuse them in their childhood stage, they will do so too to their children in their adulthood when they are with their partners. You are responsible for stopping the recurring abuse of children, as their parents, you should strive and offer them support, therapy and counselling.
You can also prevent child abuse at your homes and in the entire society through raising awareness. Advocacy is brought about by awareness. Everyone should be educated on the realities of violence and abuse towards children (Toth, Sheree & Jody 62). Also, it is everybody’s responsibility to raise awareness, whether at the workplace, in church, and among friends and families. When the people around us are aware of the realities of child abuse, they would also become advocates for them.
When any of you is suspecting that child abuse is occurring to a child in the neighbourhood, you should document what they see. Every little detail regarding the events that have taken place should be filed in the report. While you are carrying out documentation of the events; you should ensure that they are non-biased and factual. It should not be emotional too. Proper documentation can help in protecting the child from abusive caregivers. People should also be open and report incidences of child abuse. Reporting of such incidences should not be delayed; it should be done instantly upon witnessing such instances. When a child is in danger, the relevant authorities should be called immediately to intervene as more delays would make the child be in more danger.
I hope that the information above is useful and educative to each one of you. Please learn to nurture your children and correct them appropriately when they are on the wrong. Note that the experiences that your child have right now would be of significant effect in his/her future. You can impact positively or negatively on your child’s life, depending on how you handle them at a young age. Let us make our homes a conducive environment that helps our children in better cognition and physical development.
Sincerely,
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Work cited
Toth, Sheree L., and Jody T. Manly. “Developmental consequences of child abuse and neglect: implications for intervention.” Child Development Perspectives 13.1 (2019): 59-64.
van der Kolk, Bessel A. “This issue: child abuse & victimization.” Psychiatric Annals 35.5 (2017): 374-378.
Steve N. Gold. Escaping Toxic Childhood. (2020): 2-4. Retrieved From.https://aeon.com
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