Global Context
Child Maltreatment is known as behavior toward a child that will cause physical, sexual or emotional harm. Three types of maltreatment are generally recognized: physical abuse, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse. All of these child maltreatment are known as the leading deaths and reports in for children. The statistics show the most calls upon children is that according to the Children For Help “physical abuse/neglect is 38.2%, sexual abuse is 20.7%, and Emotional abuse/neglect 25.4% in the nation stats”. Also, as “353,000 kids are born within a day and an estimate of 73.6 millions kids are under the age of 17, 1 in 4 are suffering from child maltreatment as any following abuse/neglect”.
This global issue is difficult to address because it’s hard to realize the truth under the child maltreatment and what are these children are going through as growing up. Parents look the other way because they wouldn’t believe it that this happening with their child or also they have guilt admitting that they physically, emotionally, sexually hurt their child in some way or form that they did. Also, it is hard to get the children that has been hurt to come out of the closet to admit that this is happening because they are scare of their own parent or also they might not believe them or might even be killed if they say something if this is happening which is all really easy to because these are all logical response they have said or might even I had said before. |
Child Abuse Statistics. (2015). Retrieved May 18, 2016, from https://www.childhelp.org/child-abuse-statistics/
Child Population. (2014, December). Retrieved May 18, 2016, from http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp
(2016, February). Retrieved May 28, 2016, from https://philipboucherhayes.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/child-sexual-abuse-by-the-numbers-9-may-2012.jpg
Child Population. (2014, December). Retrieved May 18, 2016, from http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/tables/pop1.asp
(2016, February). Retrieved May 28, 2016, from https://philipboucherhayes.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/child-sexual-abuse-by-the-numbers-9-may-2012.jpg