What is child abuse?

Answer 1

anything above and beyond what is acceptable discipline.

Answer 2

There are far to many to list, there are literally hundreds along with child neglect, here are some.

1.Hitting your chld with anything other then your hand

2.Leaving a mark on your child

3.Starving your child.

4.Locking your child in a closet, basment or room for a certain period of time

5.Leaving a child under a certain age at home alone- kids have died or got seriously hurt because of this and recently a 3 year old girl fell out of a window because of it but very lucky for her a man happen to see what was happening and caught her, the father who left her and her sister alone is now goign to jail

6.Making your child do everything around the house such as kind of using him or her as a slave

7.forcing your child to dress in the opposite sex clothing when he or she misbehaves

8.Putting your child in a cage-they recently had a couple who dopted special needs kids and ddi this and now are going to jail for a very long time

9.Leaving a child under a certain age in a car alone

10,.Putting a child in a trunk of a car- many children have died because of this

11.Doing sexual things with your child

12.Chaining your child up- they had a case not long ago about this where a woman cuffed her 3 year olds foot to a door at night and he ended up losing his foot.

13.Sleeping in when you have children under a certain age- they recently had a woman sleep in and her 2 year old wondered out of the apartment and onto a highway in a diaper is 30 degree weather, the child was thankfully unharmed and when they found the mom her response was not again. She is now being charged

these are just some types of child abuse and child endangerment. There are hundreds, I am pretty sure you can find them all on a website.

Answer 3

That is kind of an open ended question. As an educator in a low income environment I face this issue often. There are four kinds of abuse we look for physical, emotional, sexual and then there is neglect. Physical is obviously just it sounds, you might notice bruising, cuts, frequent injuries that have stories that do not make sense. Often they are in areas you can't see but with younger children they really aren't good at hiding it, for example one child told me their back was really itchy, I sent them to the office to get checked in case it was a rash, I came to find out it was wounds healing. Another child told me that his mom's boyfriend was holding is baby brother and yelling at it using the F*word. Showing me it was at arms length. That was considered physical abuse for an investigation and emotional because of the affects it was having on the sibling. Sexual abuse is harder to detect though in my school we did experience one where a young girl was bleeding and informed her teacher of it. After investigating she was being sexual abused by her brothers and cousins who shared a room with her. It had been happening for so long she truly did not believe what was happening was wrong. We deal with issues of neglect like when parents do not pick their children up from school and leave them for extended hours or wen they are consistently late for school with out reason. Below I have put a resource for the state of Ohio, there are many resources out their that you can turn to if this something that you or someone you know needs help with. It is a scary experience but there are a lot of people out there that are willing to help and protect these victims. The child's school is a good place to start. They can help lead you in the right direction for your area.

Answer 4

Child abuse consists of any act, or failure to act, that endangers a child's physical or emotional health and development. Someone is abusive if he or she fails to nurture the child, physically injures the child, or relates sexually to the child.

Answer 5

There are different types of abuse to me. There is neglecting your childs needs....ie not changing a wet or dirty diaper in a timely fashion, not giving them attention, ignoring them, things of that sort....then there is physical, hitting them for every little thing, using belts ect, leaving welts, marks, bruises.....i have heard of a case awhile back, i believe it was foster parents, who made the children go into cages when they were "bad" that is big time child abuse....i think there are a lot of types though. People shouldn't forget about neglect though. I see so many children who are dirty, appear hungry, ignored, wet diapers hanging to their knees...to me this is just as bad as striking a child if not worse in some cases.

Answer 6

Child abuse is the physical or psychological maltreatment of a child by an adult, i.e such as physical and psychological neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse,

Answer 7

it depends if sexual or hurting. well it is when an adult hits and hurts and beats the child. sexual is touching in wrong places. if someone does that tell asap!

Answer 8

anything that harms physically or emotionally. neglect is as well.