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Article #103: Information and Advice Regarding Child Abuse

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Children are extremely resilient, often violent outburst and general neglect.
much more so than adults. It often seems Anything which causes a child harm or
anything which is thrown at a child they suffering is child abuse, and very often
are able to bounce back from without the children never speak out about their
giving it too much thought. Child abuse, torment until perhaps their adult years
unfortunately, is not one of these when they realise everything they was
things. told was a pack of lies and everything
Children are extremely vulnerable, and they endured they shouldn't have. It is
just like new born babies they depend all too common a story nowadays, and
upon adults to take care of them and sadly, it is still going on.
ensure their safety. Children, generally, Many people suspect child abuse, but are
are trusting souls, and will take too scared to blow the whistle on those
anything an adult says as the truth. Many they suspect of causing the abuse for
children therefore fall into the terrible fear of getting it wrong. Many times it
trap of silently suffering child abuse may be the teachers who see a child is
because their abuser, whoever this may becoming withdrawn or may have bruises or
be, will tell them nothing is out of the other wounds, and after talking to the
ordinary, and also to keep it a secret child and ruling out bullying may suspect
otherwise such and such will happen, such abuse at the home, in which case they
as: "You will be taken away from your have a moral duty to inform social
family." services with their concerns.
Of course, a child is then scared witless In the last couple of years in Britain
and is trapped into silence for fear that there have been a few high profile cases
they're families will abandon them should which involved children which were being
they speak out. Many children abused terribly but nobody reported it,
unfortunately are trapped in situations and in the end the children ended up dead
such as this and one can only imagine the at the hands of their abusers. This kind
fright and horror they endure. There are of tragedy can be averted so easily by
obviously different kinds of abuse, from simply taking the chance of being wrong
the most vile and calculated acts of rather than living with the guilt of
child abuse such as sexual abuse, to holding your tongue or keeping out of it.
calculated violence, down to the odd






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