Essay About Child Abuse

When you think about Child Abuse what is the first thing you consider? I think about all the effects child abuse causes. Child abuse has existed in the world for centuries, but was only recognized as abuse in 1974 in the United States. In the United States more than 2.9 million cases of child abuse are reported every year. This abuse affects children physically and mentally. So what does child abuse affect, it affects the fourth amendment, physical and mental health, and affects the economy.

Child abuse does not only affect the body of a child it also primes the brain for future mental illness. Which means that abuse goes farther in life that just bruises and scratches. According to Maia Szalavitz “child maltreatment has been …show more content…
The hippocampus is a portion of the brain that is considered to be the main center of emotion, memory, and the controlling area of the autonomic nervous system. According to Maia Szalavitz “ Regardless of their mental status, formerly maltreated youth showed reductions in volume of about six percent on average in two parts of the hippocampus”. This is yet just another fact of what the effects of child abuse are. The hippocampus is can also cause other damages that affects you later in …show more content…
Child abuse is going to progress but will cost affect the way it’s handled. According to Pew Commission on children in foster care” the estimate cost of child abuse and neglect stimulated to nearly one hundred and four billion dollars in just the past year”. If you look into the meaning of the quote, you could consider it to be a rising threat in crippling our country 's debt even more. Looking further into the quote you may find that it 's diss amazing how debt we are in because children are being abused/ neglected. Which leads to where exactly is this money going to and how it 's being