MAS 407 PRESENTATION ON CHILD ABUSE Child Abuse
MAS 407 PRESENTATION ON CHILD ABUSE
Child Abuse
Child Abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional mistreatment or neglect of a child or children. Child abuse can occur in a child’s home, or in the organizations, schools or communities the child interact with.
Physical Abuse: involves physical aggression
Physical Abuse: involves physical aggression directed at a child by an adult. Sexual Abuse: is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulation Emotional Abuse: is defined as the production of psychological and social deficits in growth of a child as a result of behavior such as loud yelling, coarse etc. Boxes containing different pictures of children abused in the above types Child Neglect: is the failure of a parent or other person with responsibility for the child to provide needed food, clothing or supervision to the degree that the child’s health being threatened; e. g. a child hawking.
SEXUAL TOPE’S ABUSE STORY
…he was too lazy to masturbate so he might as well use me. Tope tells her story of child abuse and domestic violence, from a sexually abusive father and the mother who failed to protect her and her sisters, through teens of suffering further molestation and shows how not just her experiences of relationships but also the advice by those who should care for her pushed her into a further domestic violence relationship:
Ever since I can remember I had never had the love or attention of my parents. My mum was more worried about looking pretty and making sure my dad wasn't cheating on her than her 3 daughters. My oldest sister was 15, the other one that followed was 14 and I was 7, I also had a 2 year old little brother at the time. My "Father" had been abusing my two sisters all their life.
He started raping them when they each turned 13. My sisters showed and told my mother what was going on. . . they would show her their bloody privates but she never cared - or I guess her marriage to a sick man was more important than the well being of her daughters.
I was very young, all I remember was one incident of him on top of me and my mom saying he should stop because he was going to suffocate me, I was crying. I have no other memories of my childhood.
He did scar us forever. My sisters have not been able to have a normal relationship ever since and neither had I until I found Jesus. After my Dad died we moved to my mother's hometown in Rivers State with my grandmother and uncle, aunts and lots of cousins. Soon after we arrived, one of my male cousins who was 13 at the time started abusing me: he would touch my breasts and my private part. It went on for years, until I was 13. At around 10 years old my other cousin who was about 19 at the time started tongue kissing me and grabbing me and rubbing himself on me.
We finally moved back to Lagos and my mom's boyfriend started to touch me too. Again no one did anything about it. I felt like no one cared. I was told that I could use my body as a weapon to get what I wanted. My grandmother told me I should be a stripper or a high class prostitute. Is there such thing? My mother said I should just look for rich old guys and take their money for sex.
It was no surprise I ended up going off with a 43 year old rich man when I was only 17 after my own mother's advice. It only lasted 4 months and I came back home with a child in me. My most beautiful treasure, my wonderfully smart boy! God meant for him to be born, and I love him very much. My son was two years old when I met who I thought was my prince charming…
We moved in together after 6 months of dating. Right after that he started abusing me. He used to call me names from slut, prostitute, stupid, ugly, he said I was good for nothing and the only reason he was with me was so I could clean the house and he could have sex with me.
After a while, I actually believed him: I believed that I was ugly, stupid, and dumb, that I couldn't do anything right. I didn't have his permission to speak to my mum, or any family member, I had no friends. I tried committing suicide twice.
EFFECTS OF CHILD ABUSE
The impact of child abuse and neglect is often discussed in terms of physical, psychological, behavioral, and societal consequences. In reality, however, it is impossible to separate them completely. Physical consequences (such as damage to a child's growing brain) can have psychological implications (cognitive delays or emotional difficulties, for example).
Psychological problems often manifest as high-risk behaviors. Depression and anxiety, for example, I may make a person more likely to smoke, abuse alcohol or illicit drugs, or overeat. High -risk behaviors, in turn, can lead to long-term physical health problems such as sexually transmitted diseases, cancer, and obesity.
SOLUTIONS TO CHILD ABUSE
First and most important solution to child abuse is prevention. This can be achieved through a variety of support programs, such as education and counseling for parents, the provision of respite care service. Parents can be taught to deal with and control their own emotions, as well as teaching their children the difference of what is acceptable behavior towards their friends and family members.
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