The Importance Of Child Physical Abuse In The United States

Child physical abuse is when an adult/ guardian does physical harm to a child. Child physical abuse is a huge problem in the US. From personal experience, child abuse is the worst thing you could do to a child. When I was a child I was physically abused. The "father figure" I had growing up was alcoholic and a smoker. Every time he came home from drinking it didn't matter if it was during the day or night he was always angry. When he was angry he would find an excuse to hit me, either I didn't clean something right or just be my myself he would get upset and hit me with anything that was closest to him including chairs, metal poles, tree branches, belt, his hand/fist, kitchen appliance, basically anything that someone can hold I was hit with. I have two sisters and all this was happening when they were in the house I was about ten years old taking cause of my five and two year old sisters because my "dad" was always gone drinking and my mother was working from 7am to 7pm. He never hurt my sisters because I never let him, always said " please don’t hit them, hit me …show more content…
Child physical abuse is the second most common of child maltreatment and only 8% of US adult population report it. Child physical abuse has a history of increased risks of suicide attempts, as like myself. Effects from child physical abuse cause suicidal attempts, emotional and behavioral problems and several psychiatric disorders such as major depression, conduct disorder, PTSD and many more throughout the child's life. As a victim of child physical abuse, throughout my childhood it was so difficult going through depression, suicide attempts and thoughts and being overweight in school and being bullied didn’t help either it made me even have even more depression where to the point I wanted to grab my fathers gun and shoot myself but that’s another