How can people in our society help people whao have been acuused of child abuse?

Answer 1

First, kids are pretty smart. They know that if they yell, "child abuse" whenever they don't get their way, someone might take them seriously. Second, most children who are really abused are abused because their parent is being abused from upstream, and the parent is displacing their anger and frustration onto the child because the child is a safe outlet for them to act out their revenge. Third, if a parent just is too damned cruel, like my father was, he desperately needs to be shown the proper way to discipline children. Parents often have their own anger issues, but that does not excuse taking it out on the child. However, our culture seems to condone the abuse of adults at times, no matter whom it might affect down the road. That is just wrong.

Answer 2

That's a difficult question. If you mean broad society, we need to stop all the news media sensationalism that goes on around the issue. If you mean an individual that you know who was unfairly accused, you can let people know at every opportunity that the accusations are not true.

It's unfortunate that children are abused by parents and other adults who don't know how to handle their own emotions. It's a huge problem and we need to find a way to fix it. Better education on how to deal with emotions is what I believe needs to happen. In this world, all we can do is teach one person at a time and hope that they will teach others and start a ripple effect.

Having said that, there are also many cases where there was no abuse but a child accuses because he didn't get his way. The news hungry reporters always blow things out of proportion and make things worse than they are but some also bring attention to issues that need to be addressed. We can only do it one person at a time.