Why Do Kids Have The Right To Be Kids

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Then we have emotional abuse. Emotional abuse is when the parent makes them feel unwanted. They will humiliate them, which neglect would be the same thing. They don’t provide enough attention to the child. Sometimes they give more attention to the one child and ignores the other child.
There is a minimum of three children die each day of child abuse. One out of three girls and one out of five boys will be secually abused before they get to the age of eighteen. 25% of the girls that are abused will become teen moms. About 2.9 million cases are reported each year. In prison, 14% of men and 36% of women were abused as children.
Kids have the right to be safe and stay out of the middle of their parent’s fighting. Kids have the right to be kids.

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