According to the book Adult Children of Abusive Parents ,
physical abuse is "any non accidental physical injury, including
ones that result in bruises, welts, broken bones, scars, or
serious internal injuries." Imagine you are a young eight year
old child, you're life is pretty average, you go to school, come
home and do homework. Only one thing sets you apart from your
classmates, you have bruises to cover up, they don't. Imagine
coming home every day, and being beaten with a golf club, a
stick, or an extension cord. Imagine begin forced to spend time
in a cage, or sleep underneath you parents car, with only a piece
of cardboard. Imagine not having enough to eat, or being forced
to do difficult yard work with only your bare hands. This is
just the unsafe situation that thousands of kids have to come
home to. In America, there are many people concerned for these
children, and that is good, but they are overlooking an important
group of kids being abused just as badly, and most people just
don't look at it as seriously as physical abuse.
Paul Stang
Among more than 1,400 adult females, childhood sex...
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emotional abuse.
According to the same book Adult Children of Abusive Parents ,
emotional abuse "includes unreasonable demands put on a child
that are beyond her\his capabilities and may include persistent
teasing, belittling, or verbal attacks." The effects on the
child are usually the following: he\she becomes depressed or
apathetic, they are anti-social and hostile in nature, loss of
appetite, refusal to eat and\or if the child doesn't feel love,
food may be used as a substitute, often resulting in obesity
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Verbal abuse can be very damaging to kids. The old saying
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words...