Adult Child Abuse

This world is slowly growing sad and weary, the cause comes from the harsh discharges from every social issue we have established as a society. These issues are advertised all around the world and brought you in your television set at home. From issues like racial discrimination, homelessness, and all the way to terrorism, the list goes on and on. However on this long list of long lasting global epidemics on society we find a very important one in child abuse. An issue that in my opinion also holds a lot of our future’s fate in the palm of its hands. I mean after all they do say that children are our future, but what hope do we find in knowing that a child that was abused cannot always develop normally into adulthood, thus leaving him or her …show more content…
Remarkably this study’s information was collected over a span of thirty years, and everyone interviewed was over the age of thirty. Which I believe to be ideal because it would consider them fully developed individuals, seeing as how we go through thirty years of development (Herrenkohl). The results found claimed that adults mistreated as children reported signs of depression, anxiety, and disabilities from mental and physical health complications, as well as increase their chances of alcoholic problems and substance abuse (Herrenkohl). The research in this article does a good job of drawing that line connecting child abuse and neglect to some very serious problems in adulthood. This articles also claims that the data indicates that abuse and neglect connect developmentally to several problems in adolescence and adulthood, such as diagnoses and symptoms of mental health disorders, as well as an increased chance of committing crimes and be subjects to arrests (Herrenkohl). All of these negative effects birthed from child abuse and neglect are not to be taken so lightly. It is crucially important to address post trauma from child abuse, with equally as much attention as we do to preventing child abuse. For the reason that, you cannot always expect a child to feel happy, comfortable, and safe from simply just putting an end to their abusive lives. Like I mentioned earlier we typically do not pay much mind to the post trauma treatment from child abuse. Typically we gravitate to simply the prevention of child abuse, but just like every other problem, child abuse will always be there. So what about those who have been subject to abuse for