The Effects Of Physical Abuse And Neglect

"Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts" (Fulghum). People were not paying attention to the psychological abuse as much as the physical abuse on children nowadays; yet, those verbal abuse, emotional abuse and neglect could also affect children as bad as physical abuse. Psychological abuse and physical abuse would have different punishments for the perpetrators, different chances of happening and different effects on the victims. First of all, psychological abuse and physical abuse would have different punishment for the perpetrators. In domestic child abuse, the perpetrators of physical abuse could get the punishment easier and the punishment would be tougher. In the families, the perpetrators of the physical …show more content…
In Alabama, Colorado, District of Columbia and many other states, for instance, the penalties for physical child abuse would be up to ten years. In some states like Alaska and Maine, the penalties are not harsh as Alabama, but they would still be several years. The perpetrators' offenses are easy to recognize and could easily get harsh punishment (Norman). Yet, the punishment for the perpetrators of verbal abuse, emotional abuse and neglect are not as tough as the physical abuse. Although the identities of the abuser are easier to know, the perpetrators and the primary carers are usually the same people. Therefore, the children would not receive any protection from their guardians. Also, it is hard to recognize what is the real cause of the children's aggressive behavior. In most cases, the parents would be the ones to represent their children; they could assert that their children's aggressive behaviors are caused by drugs instead of their mentally abuse behavior. As a result, the people around the children could not know the truth and help the children. …show more content…
Thus, people should pay more attention to the psychological abuse before the situation becomes worse. To prevent children from being psychological abused, people who witnessed metal child abuse could contact doctors or psychologist for the children, they can also send the children to the relevant organizations or religious groups. Parents of the children, wanting to make sure that they are not mental abusing their children, should know that they need to apologize to their children when they lose their temper; they should not attach labels to their children; they need to use appropriate discipline techniques to correct their children's behavior; they should compliment their children even their children only succeed in finishing one task