According to the Recognizing Child Abuse video, it mentions how “3 to 5 children will die each day from child abuse and neglect” (Recognizing Child Abuse Video). This statistic is tragically heartbreaking in my opinion. I honestly cried while I was watching this video. The video then mentions about a heart-breaking story of a little girl named Nixzmary Brown who was 7 years old that lost her life to child abuse. The video mentions how the poor little girl was tied to a chair and forced to use a litter box when needed to use the restroom. The video also mentions how this little girl’s cause of death was because of blunt force trauma towards her head after the little girl grabbed yogurt from the fridge without permission. What this little girl endured was severe neglect and abuse for which cost her, her life. These are some of the many signs of neglect and child abuse towards children. I seriously hope there was justice in this awful heart-breaking case. The video then discusses how “Law enforcement and teachers are the highest of professionals to report any signs of abuse and how adults who come in regular contact of children file more than half of reports to report any signs of abuse”( Recognizing Child Abuse Video). In addition, the video defines Child Abuse as “any act that endangers or impairs a child’s physical or emotional health and development” and how this consists of: “Any damage done to a child for which cannot be reasonably explained, appears to be non-accidental, and often represented by an injury or series of injuries” (Recognizing Child Abuse Video). Furthermore, the video mentions “how 16% of children who suffer from child abuse suffered from physical abuse and how 10% of children who suffer from child abuse suffer from sexual abuse. Lastly, the video mentions how 60% of children who suffer from child abuse suffer from Neglect and how 5% of those children that suffer from child abuse suffer from psychological/emotional maltreatment” (Recognizing Child Abuse Video). According to the video, “Neglect simply means by not providing the basic needs or not providing the basic care the …show more content…
The signs of Neglect according to this video consist of: “not providing the appropriate weather protection, not providing food or clothing, and also not providing supervision or medical care the child needs” (Recognizing Child Abuse Video). The video mentions how “Neglect can be in the form of educational neglect that simply means by failure to provide schooling, failure to provide special education needs and also allowing excessive truancies” (Recognizing Child Abuse Video). The video also mentions how signs of Neglect within child consists of: Children who begs or steals food or money, children that lacks medical or dental care the child needs, the child states that no one is ever home, the child is dirty or has severe body odor, the child abuses drugs or even alcohol or even the child lacks appropriate clothing for the weather” (Recognizing Child Abuse Video).
Moreover, the video discusses how Neglect can be in the form of Psychological and how the examples of this include: “Exposure to spouse abuse, exposure to drug & alcohol abuse, lack of emotional support & love and lastly chronic inattention towards the child” (Recognizing Child Abuse