Can Child Abuse Affect You Through Adulthood?

Michael Tyler Hale

English IV

Mrs. Jones-6b

26, March 2014

Outline Thesis: Even though history has shown that child abuse affects the society and develops the children to have drastic outcomes throughout their life, its possible to change their outlook and cure their problem and find a solution so they arent a statistic. I. History A. Physical B. Mental C. Sexual 1. Boys 2. Girls II. Development A. Childhood B. Statics C. Household

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Society A. Stress B. Work C. Family D. Relationship

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Problem A. Challenges

B. Age of parent C. Situational Problems 1. Child related stress

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Solution A. Get outside help B. Prevention program

Can Child Abuse Affect You Through Adulthood?

As of 2010 there was about 1,537 children abused and neglected in the United States, 79.4 percent were younger than the age of four, and 47.7 percent were younger than one year of age (Safe Horizon 1). Evidence show that children at a young age cause their parent or guardian to abuse and neglect them in some way sexual, mentally, or physically. The documents and statistics physically show that new born babies two months until the age of 6 years old should be monitored very carefully. Those little kids at a young age shouldnt be going through that at a young age and thats why their affected throughout life. Their multiple causes for child abuse are drugs, abused at a young age or experiencing abuse throughout life. The top three side effects are sexual, mental, and physically.

History A history of child abuse and neglect can impact on adults quality of life in fundamental ways. It makes basic activities such as eating, sleeping, working and studying becomes very difficult. Abuse affects your mental health, physical health, and sexual abused causes emotional neglection by parents and guardians. Child abuse is a stage in life that certain individuals go through as a minor or a teenager. In communal cases it stated that an abuser he or she doesnt have an educational background or is mentally ill. Physical

14 percent of all males in US prisons were abused at some point in their childhood, and 36 percent of all women in prison were abused during their childhood (Microp 1). One way child abuse has a propensity on children lives growing up were physical. Children who feel perpetually in danger grow up with a high stress problem, which leads to a high blood pressure. Being physically abused affects their emotions and causes the lack of sleep and weakens the immune system and eventually increase of physical illness like aching bones. Many adult survivors abused at a young age has an increased risk of a heart attack from all them anxiety, pain, and also suffering. Abuse is likely to force you to smoke and drink more than average people in your community because you been through so much. Your body will later weaken and you will become more physically active meaning, no sports, running, or anything. Child hood abuse physically happens because the parent or guardian is full or anger and rage and then takes it out on the child which is the worst part. For many survivors emotions are such basic parts of their day for example; anxiety, grief, and sadness. That leads to PTSD. All of the grieving and problems that they are facing throughout their life causes them to get posttraumatic stress disorder. PTSD usually affects the adults life fully but if they some way doesnt occur the next option for most people are poverty, drug abuse, and alcoholism. It seems like alcohol has a part into pre and post actions of abusing, the best option is to stay away from the alcohol because youre grown and have the choice to abuse yourself more than what you already suffered. The worst scenario after dealing with alcohol will be becoming mentally destroyed without understanding. Mental

Constantly threating, ignoring or even belittling children can be as damaging their mental health as physical or sexual abuse. In a study of 1,000 women 15 years of age or older, 36% had experienced emotional abuse while growing up; 43% had experienced some form of abuse as children or adolescents; 39% reported experiencing emotional abuse in a relationship in the past Five years (Canadian women's health test 1). Without having any bruises that you can physically see or sport on sight its very hard for family members to understand or try to recognize the psychological abuse. At a young age they were experiencing the mental abuse because the numerous amounts of rejections they faced, being ignored, and also having a corrupted mind. Those reasons are precisely the main reasons why young kids at a young age going into adulthood feel the way they do. Most of the time this happens because the parents or guardian were emotionally abused themselves as kids.

Emotional Boys and girls are equally likely to be victims of emotional abuse by their parents, and emotional maltreatment has been reported to peak in the 6- to 8- year old range and to remain at a similar level throughout adolescence (Kaplan and Labruna 1998). Emotionally abused children grow up thinking they are fragmental in some way. Some children are more at risk, particularly when they are additional stress coming from family and outside setting. Being separate from the people that brought you into this world and cherished you like a one million dollar talking diamond is the best feeling in the world. Last thing you want is to be separated from those people from experience that can be the drive that makes you feel like the whole world is against you, you feel alone as you dont have anyone to turn to. No one will ever understand what goes

through the mind or how your feeling, that feeling would really make you feel emotionally abused. All is being done is reminiscing from the past and it makes your future worst. With being abused as a young child you would think that the abuser can relate to the situation of the child but, they turn around and do what was done upon them.