child abuse

Examples of child abuse in the following topics:

• Child Abuse

  • Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child.
  • Child abuse is the physical, sexual, or emotional mistreatment or neglect of a child or children.
  • There are four major categories of child abuse: neglect, physical abuse, psychological/emotional abuse, and sexual abuse.
  • Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulation.
  • Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child.

• Feral Children

  • A feral child is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age.
  • Whereas Peter Pan's upbringing is glorified, all real cases involve some form of serious child abuse.
  • A feral child is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no (or little) experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, of human language.
  • In some cases, this child abandonment was due to the parents rejecting a child's severe intellectual or physical impairment.
  • Feral children may have experienced severe child abuse or trauma before being abandoned or running away.

• Factitious Disorders

  • There is growing consensus in the pediatric community that this disorder should be renamed "medical abuse" to highlight the harm caused by the deception and to make it less likely that a perpetrator can use a psychiatric defense when harm is done.
  • Münchausen syndrome is related to Münchausen syndrome by proxy, now known as "factitious disorder imposed on another"; this refers to the abuse of another person, typically a child, in order to seek attention or sympathy for the abuser.
  • Factitious disorder imposed on another (formerly Münchausen syndrome by proxy); this diagnosis is assigned to the perpetrator, while the victim may be assigned an abuse diagnosis such as child abuse.
  • A parent with factitious disorder imposed on another (formerly known as Münchausen syndrome by proxy) will deliberately produce, feign, or exaggerate symptoms in their child.
  • With deception at its core, this behavior is a potentially lethal and frequently misunderstood form of child abuse.

• Repressed Memories

  • Some research indicates that memories of traumatic events, most commonly childhood sexual abuse, may be forgotten and later spontaneously recovered.
  • In one study where victims of documented child abuse were re-interviewed many years later as adults, a high proportion of the women denied any memory of the abuse.
  • Some speculate that survivors of childhood sexual abuse may repress the memories to cope with the traumatic experience.
  • In cases where the perpetrator of the abuse is the child's caretaker, the child may push the memories out of awareness so that he or she can maintain an attachment to the person on whom they are dependent for survival.
  • Nevertheless, these studies prompted public and professional concern about recovered-memory therapy for sexual abuse.

• Parenthood

  • Parenting refers to the aspects of raising a child aside from the biological relationship.
  • Parents are more aware of a child's feelings and capabilities, and they support the development of a child's autonomy within reasonable limits.
  • Spiritual Parenting: respecting the child's individuality; making space for child to develop a sense of their own beliefs through their personality and their own potentials
  • Toxic Parenting: poor parenting; complete disruption of the child's ability to identify one's self and reduced self-esteem; neglecting the needs of the child and abuse is sometimes seen in this parenting style
  • It is important to realize that parenting doesn't end when a child turns 18.

• Influence of Parenting Style on Child Development

  • These parents exhibit a large amount of control over their child's decisions and behavior.
  • They don’t respond to their child’s needs and make relatively few demands.
  • This could be because of severe depression, substance abuse, or other factors such as the parents’ extreme focus on work.
  • Children raised in this parenting style are usually emotionally withdrawn, fearful, and anxious; perform poorly in school; and are at an increased risk of substance abuse (Darling, 1999).
  • The way in which a parent interacts with his or her child is an important factor in the child's socioemotional growth.

• Child Labor

  • Legislations across the world prohibit child labor.
  • These laws do not consider all work by children as child labor; exceptions include work by child artists, supervised training, and other categories of work such as those completed by Amish children.
  • The National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), an organization dedicated to the abolition of all child labor, was formed in 1904.
  • It was the first federal child labor law.
  • Alongside the abolition of child labor, compulsory education laws also kept children out of abusive labor conditions.

• Family Violence

  • Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, pain, injury, or other physical suffering or bodily harm.
  • Verbal abuse is a form of emotionally abusive behavior involving the use of language.
  • Economic abuse is a form of abuse when one intimate partner has control over the other partner's access to economic resources.
  • Because of the awareness of domestic violence that some children have to face, it also generally impacts how the child develops emotionally, socially, behaviorally as well as cognitively.
  • Some emotional and behavioral problems that can result due to domestic violence include increased aggressiveness, anxiety, and changes in how a child socializes with friends, family, and authorities.

• Reactive Attachment Disorder

  • The initial presentation varies according to the child's developmental and chronological age, although it always involves a disturbance in social interaction.
  • In order to be diagnosed with RAD under the DSM-5 criteria, a child under the age of 5 must:
  • While RAD is likely to occur in relation to neglectful and abusive treatment, automatic diagnoses on this basis alone cannot be made, as children can form stable attachments and social relationships despite marked abuse and neglect.
  • Such a failure could result from severe early experiences of neglect, abuse, abrupt separation from caregivers between the ages of six months and three years, frequent change of caregivers, or a lack of caregiver responsiveness to a child's communicative efforts.
  • Assessing the child's safety is an essential first step that determines whether future intervention can take place in the family unit or whether the child should be removed to a safe situation.

• Deprivation and Development

  • Social deprivation, or prevention from culturally normal interaction with society, affects mental health and impairs child development.
  • The idea that separation from the female caregiver has profound effects is one with considerable resonance outside the conventional study of child development.
  • In United States law, the "tender years" doctrine was long applied in child custody cases, and led courts to preferentially award custody of infants and toddlers to mothers.
  • In other cases, they may have been abused by parents who kept them isolated from other people.
  • The idea that separation from the female caregiver has profound effects is one with considerable resonance outside the conventional study of child development.