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Child Abuse

Child abuse is a term that generally refers to the mistreatment of a child by a parent or any other adult. Section 69 of the Family Services Act states “a Person having a child in his charge shall not ill treat, neglect, abandon, or expose him in a manner likely to cause him unnecessary suffering or to injure his physical or metal health


Child abuse can be arranged in four main categories, they are physical abuse, with indicators such as unexplained injuries and behavioural problems, emotional abuse, resulting in things such as slow development and low self esteem, mental abuse, with similar consequences and sexual abuse still with similar but more dynamic results as the others and

also perhaps unusual amounts reference to sexual situations. Child neglect is continued failure to provide for a child’s needs. (Currie and Cameron 1990) say that “Child neglect is more about what a parent fails to do rather than what a parent does.”
Some examples of neglect include leaving ...

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