1-Physical Effects
It is true that children are usually more susceptible to injuries than adults because the bodies of the kids are in development. When the children are neglected and physically abused, such type of injuries are apparent, the common effects that are observed in those children who have been sexually or physically abused are, burns, swelling, bruises, fractures, difficulty in walking and sitting, poor hygiene and many others.
2-Psychological Effects
Child abuse affects a child not only physically but also psychologically and emotionally. No doubt children are several times more sensitive than the adult people, that's why a little bit strictness can be proved harmful for them. The children and also those adults who have become the victims in their childhood are usually suffered from depression, difficulty concentrating, social anxiety disorder, difficulty sleeping and many other psychological disorders.
3-Social Effects
The effects of child abuse are not only physical, psychological or emotional but also social. The children who are neglected or physically abused can not face other people and cannot move in the society like other normal children. They have a lack of confidence and lack pf self-esteem, that's why they usually suffer from social anxiety disorder. Moreover, society itself finds it difficult to accept that child that are sexually or physically abused.
4-Economical Effects
On the number four, we will discuss some economic effects or consequences of child abuse. Those children who are neglected and physically and sexually abused, can not behave normally throughout their lives. They show the lack of interest in every field of their lives and that's why they have to face a great number of economic and social problems, governments also have to invest a large amount on the treatments of such children.
5-Alcohol and Drug Addiction
Recent researches show that the alcohol and drug addiction in the adults and children are usually the consequences of child abuse or child maltreatment. It is observed that children want to get psychological escape from the abusive environment and surrounding, they also try to gain control over their negative experiences of life, that's why they use alcohol and drugs, and this addiction proves very harmful for them.
6-Sexual Problems And Teenage Pregnancy
The Child abuse basically creates a great number of sexual problems, intimacy, and teenage pregnancy. The victims of child abuse have to face sexual problems throughout their lives, they feel difficulty in making any legal relationship with opposite sex and moreover, those who are abused sexually in their childhood have to face the heinous problems of unintended pregnancy and teenage pregnancy.
7-High Crime Rate
The seventh consequence of child abuse is that the victims of child abuse basically increase the crime rate to a great extent. It is observed that those countries who have a great number of cases of child abuses, also have a very high rate of crimes. Mostly such children have become the great criminals because they get only the negative responses and rejection from the society that's why they want to destroy this society.
8- Self-Destructive Behavior And Suicide Attempts
A great number of researchers have shown that adverse childhood maltreatment or abuses develop the self-destructive behaviors among the children. History also proves this painful fact that those children who are abused physically or sexually begin to love to do painful things and they show very self-destructive behavior. Adults who have become the victim of maltreatment usually are more likely to commit suicide.
9-Cognitive and Intellectual Consequences
The signs of cognitive and intellectual deficits have been clinically noted in the abused or neglected children. Mostly the neglected and abused children have shown the delayed intellectual development, especially in the area of the verbal intelligence. A great number of studies have found the reduced cognitive functioning and lowered intellectual functioning in the neglected and abused children.
10-Inter-Generational Cycles of Abuse
It is a famous belief in both the popular and scholarly literature is that those adults who were maltreated or abused and neglected in their childhood are three times more likely to abuse their own children. About one-third of the individuals who were neglected and abused in their childhood will abuse their own children consciously or unconsciously.
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