| Around 11,000 babies are born daily in the United | | | | balancing child protection and respect for child privacy |
| States. Each and every one of them is at risk of child | | | | can be a hard act, but the benefits will be well worth |
| abuse. Lest you think that your child will not be one | | | | it. Negative Effects Victims of child abuse can |
| of them, remember that child abuse also happens | | | | emerge from the horrible experience either as better |
| outside the protective shelter of your home. It can | | | | persons or as bitter individuals, depending on the help |
| happen in schools, in malls, in day care centers, in | | | | you can give them and their resilience. Unless you talk |
| offices, and even in a venue as sacred as a church | | | | to the victims themselves, you cannot differentiate |
| itself. Child Abuse Defined To make any allegations of | | | | victims from non-victims simply because most of |
| child abuse stick, the age of the abused must be | | | | them do not exhibit outward behavioral signs. Small |
| firmly established to be less than 18 years. Usually, | | | | children simply do not have the language capacity to |
| the age is usually determined at the time of the | | | | fully describe their experiences, while older children |
| commission of the crime, even if the abused is of | | | | can be very reluctant about discussing them. This |
| age at the time of trial. If your hidden spy cams | | | | makes the installation of hidden spy cams more than |
| have dates features, then you can better establish | | | | necessary around your children. Thus, the negative |
| date of commission of the crime and the exact age | | | | effects are usually emotional and psychological in |
| of the child. That being said, child abuse is the | | | | nature. Usually, victims are prone to anxiety, |
| commission of physical, sexual, and psychological | | | | depression, limbic irritability, and dissociation. Indeed, |
| maltreatment of a child by an adult. It is also the | | | | physical scars can be surgically removed and can |
| omission of acts to look after the welfare of a child. | | | | fade, but emotional scars can be harder to detect |
| In both cases, the child is exposed to actual and | | | | and to treat. Prevention Strategies Aside from |
| possible physical and emotional harm. Perpetrators (or | | | | installing hidden spy cams to monitor your child, |
| Perverts) Generally speaking, parents, nannies and | | | | especially in the home, you can take many |
| babysitters, teachers, and anybody living and working | | | | approaches to preventing child abuse. You can |
| around or with children can be child abusers. This is | | | | actively participate in community programs that seek |
| not to say that you must adopt a suspicious attitude | | | | child abuse prevention, ask your school to implement |
| towards everybody living and working around your | | | | a skills-based curriculum that will educate your children |
| child. It is thus advisable to position hidden spy cams | | | | about child abuse and how they can avoid it, and |
| in areas where possible and suspected child abuse | | | | allow yourself and your nannies a break from stress. |
| can happen in the home - the child's bedroom, | | | | Indeed, child abuse is a horrible crime upon humanity. |
| general living areas, and kitchen. Ask your lawyer for | | | | It takes each and every one of us to pour our |
| legal privacy issues first. You can adopt a proactive | | | | talents and our souls into protecting the future of our |
| approach to your child's protection in places outside | | | | species. |
| the home, especially in school. You can inquire from | | | | Install a home spy camera to monitor your child and |
| the school administrator regarding the presence of | | | | caregivers. Though spy cams pose privacy issues, |
| hidden spy cams in strategic places. Often, the | | | | oftentimes the benefits outweigh the costs. Ask |
| presence of spy cams deters malicious intent. You | | | | your lawyer about the legalities of installing hidden |
| have to ask, however, if these hidden spy cams do | | | | spy cams. But first, visit now! |
| not intrude upon your child's privacy. Admittedly, | | | | |