How badly can child abuse scar someone?

Question

How badly can being abused as a child affect someones life as an adult? Do you thiknk the type of abuse can worsen the effects?

Answer 1

Any abuse can have and usually has affects upon a human being. And left untreated, without some counseling thus working through and dealing with the after affects of the abuse. Can cause serious harm to all adult relationships, even the relationships with their children and how they raise them. Certainly there would be some sense of insecurity, lack of trust and trust issues with self and others. The impact of abuse on any one individual i believe depends on the individual, abuse is abuse, i am not sure that any one type of abuse affects one more than another. Again, I believe it depends on the individual the victim (survivor) of the abuse. Not all victims (survivors) of abuse in turn grow up and abuse. Some however, do grow and continue the pattern of abuse. God bless

Answer 2

I have to disagree with leland....verbal abuse can be as bad as the others. Words spoken to a child that stick with them for life -affect them for life. Verbal abuse always accompanies the others making the damage even worse. They say the bruises of physical abuse last a long time, but the scars and bruises of mental and verbal abuse last a lifetime.
How severe the abuse is and how long it lasted, as well as the personality of the child to begin with and the age it started, are all factors in the severity of the abuse of children.

Answer 3

It can scar a human being terribly for life, myself being a survivor of child abuse had to deal with it all my life through adulthood.
But once that child becomes an adult, is up to them to choose how to deal with it. In a positive or negative way, is not easy to turn it into a positive, but that's the challenge one has to take on. And understand and mostly be aware of the scars that we have.
Yes, it also depends on the type of abuse how it can affect the child as well.

Answer 4

It’s a life altering event, and yes the type matters. Verbal abuse is a form of abuse yet its effects would likely be less harmful over the course of a person’s life as opposed to physical or sexual abuse.

Answer 5

Mental child abuse usually leaves scars that last a lot longer that physical child abuse. Mental abuse does in many cases follow into adulthood if not dealt with.

Answer 6

If a child is not treated properly at an early age they will not develop properly.

Serial Killers Charles Manson, Ed Gein (the movie Psycho was based loosely on him) and Ted Bundy, all grew up in very abusive situations.

Charles Manson was the son of a crack addicted prostitute and moved from foster family to foster family growing up. He was called "No Name Madox" as a child and was convicted of raping a boy when he was in his teens.

Ed Gein was raised by his religious zealot of a mother who taught him that all women were whores. His father was a violent alcoholic who his mother always spoke poor of. Young Ed was allowed to have no friends growing up and was severly punished when his mother caught him "going at it" in the bathtub.

Ted Bundy was born to a young woman who had no choice but to raise him in the home of her abusive father. He was raised thinking his grandmother was his mother and his mother was his sister but this wasn't very unusual in the past when very young women gave birth. A lot of historians blame his mother for Ted's problems but I disagree that his mother was the source, rather, I think his abusive grandfather, who he considered to be his real father, is to blame for creating a serial killer.

All of these men had a form of reactive attachment disorder.

Answer 7

hey i was a abused as a child and all though im 17 now i went through hell and back it all comes down to how much the person abused wants to help them self . i now found out i am 5 weeks pregnant to the guy i love and cherish. but it wouldnt suprise me if we had problems later on . although i have delt with it i think child abuse never goes away and will always come back to bite u in the bum lol. but as long as u stay strong keep ur chin up things will hopefully be fine.

Answer 8

Obviously, child abuse can scar a person as badly as it gets. There are people locked up in mental facilities who don't know what day it is, whose problems can be traced back to it. Whether one type of abuse is "worse" than another, I don't know. There are, however, certain disorders and phobias indicative of different forms of maltreatment, especially sexual abuse, and violence begets violence.

Answer 9

Genuine child abuse can and will "scar" a person. This abuse can be sexual abuse, emotional (psychological) abuse, or physical abuse. A child is in his or her developing years. When he or she is exposed to a traumatic experience, they will store or cache memories from that experience in their minds. If the experience is very very traumatic, the child will require counselling from a competent therapist, usually a psychologist. If the child does not received adequate therapy, he or she will go through life damaged and find it very, very difficult to adjust to life as an adult. Littleflo; if you have been or even, think you have been abused PLEASE -PLEASE -PLEASE go to your guidance counsellor at school, to your family doctor, a church pastor or minister, or even the police and speak to one of them about your situation and why you believe you suffer(ed) abuse. If you don't, you will go through life angry, moody, and withdrawn.

Answer 10

It will last a life time