Stop Child Abuse

 

In today's world where children are supposed to be the foundation of the future world, their own foundation has been shaken up because of the abuses they face in those very years when they were suppose to be carefree and friendly and loving.

Child abuse is not just a crime at that moment, its a permanent scar that is given to them at such a tender age, where it complicates their beliefs and make them live with a burden, which is not their fault, for the rest of their life.

Well the technical definition of child abuse is "When a parent or a caregiver, whether through action or failing to act, causes injury, death, emotional harm or risk of serious harm to a child. There are many forms of child maltreatment, including neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation and emotional abuse."

To give you all just an example of how cruel it could be let me take you to 1860, when a key paper gathered together a series of 32 such cases, of which 18 were fatal, the children were dying from starvation and/or recurrent physical abuse, it included the case of Adeline Defert, who was returned by her grandparents at the age of 8, and for 9 years tortured by her parents- whipped everyday, hung up by her thumbs and beaten with a nailed plank, burnt with hot coals and her wounds were bathed in nitric acid. But make no mistake in believing that, that was it because the number just kept increasing from there on. According to NCRB report 109 children, every single day.

The worst part about these abuses is that they have such life-long impacts on children's lives that they actually start believing that pain is a part of life and since they are children nobody believes their suffering because they are constantly told that they are kids and everything is going to be alright which only confuses them about how they feel. The victims thus face guilt, self-blame, flashbacks, nightmares, insomnia, fear of things associated with the abuse, self-esteem difficulties, sexual dysfunction, chronic pain, addiction, self-injury, suicidal ideation, somatic complaints, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, other mental illnesses including borderline personality disorder and the list just goes on.

I know you all must be thinking that you already know about this already and that there is already so much about it everywhere but there isn't. Its just a fraction of what the kids go through. Unless someone has gone through it personally nobody can imagine their pain and since they are kids nobody actually cares because they are told to just learn to grow up with it. But all they need is your support and love so please stop child abuse in any way you can and let those kids know that they are not alone in this, they have us, they have our support.

THANK YOU.