In your own opinion, what constitues as child abuse?

Question

I'm doing a health and social care course and abuse is the current chapter. Thank you

I don't ask this to get you to do my work for me one of the questions requires me to ask the opinions of others!

Answer 1

Physical abuse....... hitting, slapping, pinching. Withholding food. I see nothing wrong with a tap on the fanny but if it goes further then that that's abuse.

Sexual abuse OF ANY KIND

Emotional abuse, saying horrible things, hurtful words, cussing at them, screaming at them, telling them they were a mistake or unwanted ect.

Neglect..... not watching them, not feeding them, not cleaning them or the home, not spending time with them, locking them in their room. Being on-line all the time and not listening to them. Not cooking good meals for them.

So many ways they can be abused. In my job I have to report anything I see Its mandatory for me. However the state rarely does anything. So sad, so very sad.

Answer 2

This is going to be a topic that is very very very debatable. I believe child abuse is when a child is hit or should I say beaten where injuries or bruising occurs. Or when a child is tied up, or locked in a cage, not fed, or properly clothed, things like this. BUT in today's day you hit a kid and this is abuse. My opinion this is where half the problems come from. I use the term "Lack a slap" There are so many kids now-a-days that suffer from this illness. If a kid screws up and NO, I don't mean comes home and tells you that he spilled a glass of milk at school. The kid screws up like he or she hit another kid for NO reason. The kid should be punished. Be it LOST privileges or a slap up side the head, or grounded, BUT he/she IS punished. TIME OUTS now that IS ABUSE in the worst way. But I was brought up Old school style. And I do not have a problem with this way. I have more of a problem with the way things are handled today.

Answer 3

You know that 'overprotected' treatment of children is considered by most social workers as a form of abuse. We are all guilty of it as parents sometime in our lives. I have done the same course, (well social work ) and I learned a lot from my own childhood experiences.. I was not the best behaved boy in our neighbourhood or at school but on reflection you know I would have prefered a smack than someone tell me I meant nothing.
The vast majority of abused children will always cling to their parents regardless of the suffering they put them through. As a parent ,( I have 3 children) Old fashioned love and praise and encouragement is a good mix and I have the results to prove it. Emotional, and verbal abuse can screw a kids mind 10 times more than any physical can. Sexual abuse, apart from forced rape is deemed by most young children as a display of love and affection and even to some adolescents it is better than nothing at all. Sorry for waffling on but I hope it helps.

Answer 4

Children should be happy. If you are unhappy over a specific period of time, whether it be mental or physically affecting the childs state of mind and wellbeing then the child is being abused in some way.
Everyone associates beatings and sexual interference with abuse but if a young child is being kept in a small room and starved of basic needs this also constitutes abuse in my opinion.
Children need love, care and interaction and if either of these catergories are compromised there is, primarily, a case of neglect.

Answer 5

I think that spanking is alright. I qualify abuse as being that: ABUSE. Spanking someone really hard because they did something really bad is not abuse. Giving a kid 100 pushups when they did nothing wrong is abuse. I am from Lansing, MI. Over the summer, a couple killed their adopted son with mental disabilities. She beat his skull until it smashed with a hammer, he watched and cleaned up the blood. THAT IS MOST DEFINITELY ABUSE.

To me, abuse qualifies as:
(A) Intentionally trying to hurt your child
(B) Using cruel and unusual punishment
(C) Neglect of any kind

If anyone does any of the above, I believe they are guilty of child abuse and should be put to death.

Answer 6

Failure or deliberately denying the safety of children emotionally, physically and developmentally.

By that I mean anything that causes a child harm whether physical abuse, emotional abuse (bullying, taunting, emotional neglect and denying comfort and play) and failing to allow a child to develop themselves educationally (not let them attend school etc.). Making a child work as well.

Answer 7

It is relative to each situation. All children are abused. We cannot leave them alone. They need us. At the same time they are fed up of being told what to do. I was "punished" for not following the simple rules of the family. I am glad I was as it had taught to fit in the world that was to come.

Answer 8

never. particularly much all spanking (tremendously after age 5 or so) might desire to be achieved on the bare backside for various motives. Taking outfits down supplies the two the determine and infant a sprint time beyond regulation to quiet down in the previous the spanking. bare backside is extra embarrassing, which provides to the punishment fee and makes much less definitely spanking needed. To be powerful, spanking must be painful, and spanking on the bare dermis is extra painful than via outfits. and you will discover how the spanking is progressing so which you do no longer bypass too a great way.

Answer 9

Bullying a child (both verbally and physically)
general neglect with feeding care and welfare
dirtiness
sexual

there is a a lot to say but relay it depends on the person investigating it

Answer 10

As a child I was smacked and I think the discipline made me into a descent person, I don't blame my parents because it was never excessive, just a smack on the backside. I wouldn't dream of doing it to my little girl.