It can also effect who the child wants to try to become as a person. Many who were abused as a child became teen prostitutes or teen criminals, according to the National Council on Child Abuse and Family Violence (2014). This is because the effects of child abuse last through a victim’s whole life. They want to feel loved. Therefore, they then exploit themselves because that is what they were taught love is and was, when they were abused by someone who was supposed to love them. Others who become delinquents or runaways, don’t know what to do so they take their anger out on something else - which is usually illegal. The runaways end up leaving because they can’t deal with everything they have been through and want to get away from it all. Those who runaway want to start over and to turn a new leaf. However, they then realize that what they have been through is difficult to deal with and they can’t do everything on their own (NCCAFV, 2014). This is when they decide they want to break free from their haunting past that just seems to come back over and over again, no matter how hard they push it away. It may be hard to let go of what has been a weight on their shoulders, but it will help to tell someone the victim trusts completely (NCCAFV, …show more content…
Victims sometimes find it hard to tell someone about their experience. However, if the reader realizes that he or she could have possibly been a victim and haven’t shared the experience with another person, know that it is okay to let someone know. When you keep everything bottled up inside, emotions build on top of each other and eventually everyone’s bottle breaks. At that point it should be known that nothing can be kept for too long. The National Council on Child Abuse and Family Violence shares that telling someone will help victims to cope with overwhelming emotions (2014). Therapy is a good place that can help victims become resilient. It is a safe place to let out all of the emotions that have been bottled up for so long, while getting help. Parents are also a good way of helping their children stay away from