Mrs. Kendra Gallos . English 3 Honors. 5 April 2017....

Mrs. Kendra Gallos English 3 Honors 5 April 2017 Preventing Child Abuse Every day children around the world are being abused by their parents, trusted adult, caregiver and peers. Children are constantly suffering when there are things that everyone as a community can do help them. Psychologists, social workers and the victims to childhood abuse have studied and worked together to establish precautionary measures to execute child abuse all together. In two thousand and fourteen, about one thousand five hundred and eighty children died as a result of abuse and neglect, which is about four to five children a day. Studies have even showed that they may even be undercounting by fifty percent or more. On average, four to seven children die†¦show more content†¦Emotional abuse is one of the most harmful abuses for a child because it has the potential to impact their entire life in such a negative aspect. Emotional abuse is doing things to hurt the child emotionally or hurt their feelings and often making them feel unwanted and useless. A child is most often emotionally abused by a parent or trusted adult because the child is seeking approval from them and that causes them to be emotionally hurt a lot more when the adult says degrading or hurtful things. A child that has been emotionally abused may not care about things that are going on around him/her, might not react as a normal child would to pain, avoid a certain person or caregiver, act more fearful, angry and sad than normal, his/her grades in school may go down and they may even result to harming themselves. The abuser may have been cautious and a child may have several to no physical effects on their body. However other times, a child may have several signs and symptoms including bruises, welts or swelling. They may also have fractures or sprains, burns, lacerations, abrasions, difficulty walking or standing and torn, stained or bloody clothing. They may also have pain or itching in the genital area and bruises or bleeding in the external genital area. Children