Child Abuse?

Question

Why child abuse [e.g child labour and Commercial sexual exploitation of children] take place?

What are the obstacles faced when there are legal efforts taken to protect these children?

Answer 1

The Constitution doesn't go to sleep just because the accusations are about children. We need reasonable, provable, and prosecutable definitions of child abuse and it shouldn't be about mildly spanking children or otherwise correcting them and bringing them up to be good citizens. It's always difficult to keep balance and justice.

Tough questions need to be answered. For example: Child abuse experts have stated that children who have been abused grow up to be abusers themselves. But conveniently, the reason that many social workers go into child abuse prevention is because they were abused themselves. Therefore, they abuse the adults who were accused of child abuse and the problem remains unsolved and perpetuates itself.

Additionally, statistics have shown that many children are taken from homes where they are allegedly abused and placed into foster homes or group homes where they are definitely abused and often killed. Despite the fact that the original home was considered abusive, there was stability and often those children had developed a support network that made their lives bearable. When those children were removed from that home and then shuffled from one foster home to another, they lost all continuity and support. They never had the same teachers, could not develop any long-term friendships or relationships and so the same organization that took them away from an alleged abusive home, took away much of their continuity and stability. In the long run these kids were much worse off than if they had been allowed to stay in the home and had regular visits from social workers or police.

Additionally, children who were removed from their homes were often abused sexually by caregivers or other foster children who were in the same homes. Many suffered from Stockholm Syndrome because the foster parents, psychologist, or other abusive person who gained custody of the child had already proven their power over the child and the child could be told that he'd never see his parents again if he didn't do exactly as he was told.

That's why we have and need checks and balances and why we are supposed to have due process of law. We cannot just assume that all police are good, all social workers are good, all foster parents are good, all psychologists are good, etc. Every group has its bad apples and the checks and balances are supposed to ensure that equal protection of the law works.

Answer 2

In most cases, children are abused by the people close to them, this make the legal efforts more difficult. As these children are either ignorant or do not know how to protect themselves, and the guardian whose supposed to protect them have become the abuser.

Answer 3

"Freedom is another word for nothing left to lose." Thanks to the lost Government regulations, business is stealing the food right out of the hands of the middle and lower class children. Business is strong enough to control the Government at this point.
Business is strong enough to control the content of what is broadcast on your TV. It is strong enough to control the survival of unions, right wing demigods, costs of oil and chemicals that make medicines and so on.
Business is strong enough to champion laws that distort the truth about what is happening in our world.
Do you remember the planted news stories that were not news at all, but paid information by the government run by business people in government clothing.
Child abuse is a product of general abuse of children and the services provided to them.
Why do we not have preschool for every child in America?
Why do we not have health care for every American.
We are the richest Country in the world, so what happened to all the money?
Why don't we have a teachers assistants in every classroom?
Why don't we not guaranty a four year post high school college or technical education to every child in America?
What happened to all the money?

Answer 4

Child abuse occurs because there are people who had bad experiences in the past and in order to have vindication for their past, they do it to children when they are already gorwn-ups.