Abuse happens behind closed doors and you never know who might be a victim. It’s been said that when people are abused during their childhood, they grow up to be the abusers. No matter to what extent the abuse has reached, it has a long-term impact on a child’s life. Child abuse needs to stop because it causes mental instability, it ruins later relationships, and it raises the risk of kids growing up to be abusers or related to similar crimes. It is common for people to think victims of abuse as kids would lead them to abuse others in their later years. “...about one-third of the parents who have histories of abuse will subject their children to abuse” (Kaufman). There have been multiple studies on abusive parents and their children. Most
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Some of the main ones are physical, mental, and verbal. All forms of abuse on a kid causes some sort of problems whether it’s as mild as emotional scarring or as severe as causing a kid to develop a mental illness. There are three well descriptive points that suggest victims do become abusers and how it begins:
... first, that the more deviant the patient population, the higher the rates of past victimisation; second, that the choice of victims is dependent on the victims’ physical characteristics, including age; third, that there is often a tendency to abuse the victim in a way that replicates the offender’s own experience of …show more content…
Orphan children are put through a system that is supposed to keep them safe and help them get to a better home where they have a chance of having a normal childhood. Somehow, the system is the ones that places those kids in abusive homes. A home environment has a huge impact on a child. They should be able to grow up in a stable lifestyle being taught between what’s right and wrong. “Abused children who came from families where violence was common were more than three times as likely to become abusers as were those who experienced maternal neglect and sexual abuse by females” (Boyles). When kids grow up knowing abuse their whole life, this sparks an idea that they believe that is what’s normal and they’ll create an abusive lifestyle later in life. Victims of abuse aren’t usually the ones to speak out about it. They respond to their traumatic events by denying what’s happening or blaming themselves for the abuse (Goleman). Kids minds can easily be manipulated. The abuser can twist the problem around on the kid and make them think they are the one that is doing wrong. This is also common with adults in abusive relationships. It all comes down to how much the human brain can be manipulated by someone that is a major part of their
Some of the main ones are physical, mental, and verbal. All forms of abuse on a kid causes some sort of problems whether it’s as mild as emotional scarring or as severe as causing a kid to develop a mental illness. There are three well descriptive points that suggest victims do become abusers and how it begins:
... first, that the more deviant the patient population, the higher the rates of past victimisation; second, that the choice of victims is dependent on the victims’ physical characteristics, including age; third, that there is often a tendency to abuse the victim in a way that replicates the offender’s own experience of …show more content…
Orphan children are put through a system that is supposed to keep them safe and help them get to a better home where they have a chance of having a normal childhood. Somehow, the system is the ones that places those kids in abusive homes. A home environment has a huge impact on a child. They should be able to grow up in a stable lifestyle being taught between what’s right and wrong. “Abused children who came from families where violence was common were more than three times as likely to become abusers as were those who experienced maternal neglect and sexual abuse by females” (Boyles). When kids grow up knowing abuse their whole life, this sparks an idea that they believe that is what’s normal and they’ll create an abusive lifestyle later in life. Victims of abuse aren’t usually the ones to speak out about it. They respond to their traumatic events by denying what’s happening or blaming themselves for the abuse (Goleman). Kids minds can easily be manipulated. The abuser can twist the problem around on the kid and make them think they are the one that is doing wrong. This is also common with adults in abusive relationships. It all comes down to how much the human brain can be manipulated by someone that is a major part of their