Child Abuse & Neglect starts early

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Child Abuse and Neglect starts very early while the child is in their mother's womb. Some mothers drink while they are pregant with their child and others drink throughout their child's life. This can affect the child in many ways it can damage the child brain and affect the way the child function.
Most parents that do drugs can abuse or Neglect their children and have them taken away from them. In this video you will see facts about abuse and neglect and how it affect the children, it also explain that 906,000 children are victims of abuse and neglect and how that makes abuse more common. It also stated that no matter what type of abuse or neglect that was against a child or an adult the damage done is long lasting and can lead to future abusers.

Children of all ages are neglected, all they want is to be noticed or have someone that care or love them.  In this video Children are talking about what they been through or what they notice about other kids. When a child is neglected they have a hard time in public and finding friends. When kids that are neglected goes to school other kids end up teasing them because they are wearing dirty clothes or their hair are not well groomed.

                                         

The Shaniya Davis Story

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Shaniya Nicole Davis was born on February 14,2004. She was raised by her dad Bradley Lockhart and his sister. Shaniya was like any other girl, happy, friendly, love to play and make new friends. Her mother was trying to get her back saying that she has changed and that she have a nice place to live, by saying this Shaniya father believed her and thought to give her a chance. However his sister drove her to her mom's place saying her last words to Shaniya not knowing that, and that's where bad things started happening. Once in her mothers care her mother's boyfriend took her to a hotel and did things to her. The mother than called the police saying that her child was missing knowing that she sold her daughter to her boyfriend to take her somewhere to be dead.

This is a sad story that happens everyday to all children and the sad part is that these innocent children are loosing their lives because of heartless people. Knowing that his precious daughter lost her life he is heartbroken and all he is left with is memories of her. Why would a mother do this to her own child, a child she give birth to and a child that look up to her for protection and she sold her life away.

  

Child Neglect: Jordan Heikamp Story

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About forty million children world-wide suffer from child abuse, Sixty percent of all abuse cases are neglect. "Child neglect is the failure to provide for the shelter, safety, supervision and nutritional needs of the child." Child neglect may be physical, emotional or educational. Jordan Heikamp was born May 19, 1997 to his single mother Renee in Toronto. At the time, his mother was only 19 years old and was homeless, Renee went to stay in a homeless shelter with Jordan while she was watched over by the CCAS (Catholic Children's Aid Society). Throughout the next five weeks, every time Renee was asked about her son, she said he was doing well, she said he was gaining weight, and that a doctor had seen Jordan. Any time anyone saw the baby he was always wrapped in a blanket, no one ever actually got a good look at him. On June 23, 1997 Renee brought Jordan to the hospital, but at just five weeks old, he had already went to heaven. Jordan had starved to death, he was extremely emaciated weighing four pounds, two ounces. Jordan Austin Micheal Robert Scott Desmond Heikamp from May 19 to June 23, 1997.

This video is showing how a mother neglected her child for whatever reason. She neglected her child by feeding him nothing but water and she failed to get him the help he needed. She allowed her child to be starved to death and did nothing about it, she kept him wrapped in a blanket so no one would notice anything strange about him and question her. Why would any parent do such a thing to their child? No child deserve to be treated like that and its sad because God had blessed her with a beautiful child and she treated him bad to the point where his life was taken from him.

Did you know that more children die from neglect than from abuse? Yea i didn't know that until I watched this video. There are many things some of us don't know about abuse and neglect, things are happening everyday without us knowing it, everyday of our lives we are doing things and living our lives while other people around the world are suffering from abuse, neglect and many more. lets work together to help put a stop to abuse and neglect.

How to report supspected child neglect

Anyone can report suspected child abuse or neglect. Reporting abuse or neglect can protect a child and get help for a family—it may even save a child's life. In some States, any person who suspects child abuse or neglect is required to report. To see how your State addresses this issue, read the Information Gateway publication, Mandatory Reporters of Child Abuse and Neglect.

Child Welfare Information Gateway is not a hotline for reporting suspected child abuse or neglect, and it is not equipped to accept reports of this nature. Information Gateway is not equipped to offer crisis counseling. As a service of the Children's Bureau in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Information Gateway does not have the authority to intervene or advise in personal situations.

Childhelp^® is a national organization that provides crisis assistance and other counseling and referral services. The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with professional crisis counselors who have access to a database of 55,000 emergency, social service, and support resources. All calls are anonymous. Contact them at 1.800.4.A.CHILD (1.800.422.4453).

If you need help with personal or family situations, you may wish to visit our resources on Where to Find Help.

If you suspect a child is being abused or neglected, or if you are a child who is being maltreated, contact your local child protective services office or law enforcement agency so professionals can assess the situation. Many States have a toll-free number to call to report suspected child abuse or neglect. To find out where to call, consult the Information Gateway publication, State Child Abuse Reporting Numbers.
https://www.childwelfare.gov/responding/how.cfm
Children look up to us to protect them, care for them, and guide them in the right direction, so why not help them? I'm not saying that some parents or caregivers don't do everything in their power to protect their kids because they do and its a good thing. All I'm saying is that other people need to step up and help kids. The article above is saying that anyone can report the neglect of children don't just watch or say they will be okay because they won't be okay until someone step in and help. In the article is where you can go or call to report child neglect, if you are scared to report it and you think that something might happen to you for whatever reasons you don't have to say your name and you will feel better because you helped a child. Please take this seriously and use this information to help others.

Abuse Don't Have To Be Repeated.

Excuses, Excuses: Child Abuse Does Not Have to Be Repeated

By Ava Grey

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 I am so tired of hearing the stories of abuse continuing through multiple generations of families. At what point do people grow up and take responsibility for their own actions? Instead, I hear it being used as an excuse for abusing their own kids.

Here’s the deal. I was raised by a disturbed woman. She says she was raised by a violent alcoholic parent and that she was also sexually abused. This apparently is true and is backed up by other relatives. She then went on to abuse me, physically and emotionally from my first memory of life until I was sixteen. She did it because of how she was raised. That was all she knew. She didn’t know how to be a parent. That’s what I heard from her.

That’s what I hear being said on behalf of those we see on television who beat, burn, and break their children. I don’t buy it. You see, out of all the other siblings, my mother is the only one known to have abused her children. I’m not saying that the others have been perfect parents. Sure they’ve had their unique issues. Some developed bad habits like theft or alcoholism. Some decided at times that they couldn’t raise their kids, so they were left with relatives. However, they didn’t beat their children. They didn’t tell their children that they wished they had been aborted. Oh, how I wish that I had simply been given away.

I’ve had my own children and they have never been abused in any way, I don’t even spank them, which many of my conservative peers disagree with. My children are happy and safe and secure with the people who are supposed to protect them—their parents. My abuse instilled in me the desire to make sure that my children never knew that pain. Why can’t others do the same?
http://www.divinecaroline.com/self/self-discovery/excuses-excuses-child-abuse-does-not-have-be-repeated
This article was written by Ava Grey and in this article he is explaning how his mom and other people use an excuse for abusing their children. What he means by this is that people who have been abused use it to say that that's the reason why they abuse their children or kids they look after. I agree with him because people need to realize that you shouldn't use anything for an excuse for abusing children just because you was abused. Another thing is that abuse can be stopped it's up to you to put a stop to it and stop it from happening in the future. Not everybody have the courage to do that but I believe that they can and will put a stop to it.

Children Who Are Neglected

Neglect occurs when a parent or other primary caretaker chooses not to fulfill their obligations to care for, provide for, or adequately supervise and monitor the activities of their child. Parental and caregiving obligations include the physical, emotional, and educational well-being of the child. Thus, neglect can also occur when the parent or caretaker does not seek adequate medical or dental care for the child. Another definition of neglect is when the parental figure does not provide sufficient food, clothing, or shelter.    

Parents are also expected to provide for the emotional needs of the child. Thus, neglect can occur when parents abandon the child, or simply have no time to spend with the child, in essence leaving the child to raise himself. If the child is actually left without supervision, this certainly constitutes neglect as well.
The final feature of neglect includes educational neglect, which often occurs when one child is responsible for other children in the family. Shifting the responsibility of caring for younger children to another child in the family prevents the caregiving child from participating in age-appropriate activities for themselves, such as attending school. This is a relatively common situation that makes it difficult for the oldest—and perhaps all of the children—to attend school. Parental responsibility includes providing adequate guidance and supervision for the children to regularly attend school. Truancy is not only a problem for children, but may be part of the picture of neglect as well.

Effects of neglect

Consequences of neglect are generally cumulative, and often negatively affect the child's development. For example, poor nutrition has negative consequences on the child's physical and psychological development. If proper nutrients are not available at critical growth periods, the child's development will not follow the normal and usual pattern. Common physical and psychological reactions to neglect include stunted growth, chronic medical problems, inadequate bone and muscle growth, and lack of neurological development that negatively affects normal brain functioning and information processing. Processing problems may often make it difficult for children to understand directions, may negatively impact the child's ability to understand social relationships, or may make completion of some academic tasks impossible without assistance or intervention from others. Lack of adequate medical care may result in long-term health problems or impairments such as hearing loss from untreated ear infections.
Long-term mental health effects of neglect are inconsistent. Effects of neglect can range from chronic depression to difficulty with relationships; however, not all adults neglected as children will suffer from these results. Some individuals are more resilient than others and are able to move beyond the emotional neglect they may have experienced. Characteristics of resilient individuals include an optimistic or hopeful outlook on life, and feeling challenged rather than defeated by problems.

http://www.minddisorders.com/Kau-Nu/Neglect.html

The first article is explaining what neglect actually is and what it looks like, for parents to neglect their kids is wrong in many ways if you can't care for the child then why have one? It is clear that many parents tend to place their responsibility on their other children which can place stress on that child as well. Children can not take care of children, some parents need to stop neglecting their children because those kids will become something in the future. This article also shows the different types of neglect and how it affect children.







   


The second part of the article explain the consequences that may take place if the child have been neglected. This article shows that kids who have experience neglect will more likely experience developmental problems. Children who are neglected will have health problems that will hurt them if they don't take care of it. All children deserve a better living than to be dashed of somewhere they have to fight for their life alone without knowing where they are. Neglected kids face many problems and are in need of help, they are place in a condition where they can't take their self from.

Abuse is use as an excuse for punishments.

I believe that abuse are and can be use as an excuse for punishments for kids. In some parts of the world abuse is use as an excuse for punishments whether the parents knows it or not. For example, in Africa if a kid does something wrong their parents will gave them harsh punishments which can be seen as abuse towards the child.


One defendant was beaten nearly every day of his young life with a switch from a tree or with a belt, was regularly locked in his room, where his parents had removed the handles from the door and installed several locks on the outside of the door and boarded up all the windows. They would leave him in there for days at a time, forcing him to urinate and defecate on the bedroom floor, something for which he would then be punished. He cried and begged to be let out and would become so claustrophobic that he almost asphyxiated several times from the panic attacks that he experienced. The punishment only escalated. As he got older his parents made him do push ups while they held a hunting knife under his chest, as motivation to keep him from faltering. 

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This article shows what this person have been through and all the punishments his parents put him through. It shows that his parents use violent acts as an excuse for punishing him for whatever it was that he did. Most parents use abuse as an excuse for punishing their kids, probably to say that they are not harming their kids they are punishing them. I feel that abuse should not be use as an excuse for punishing kids. When his parents were making him do push ups while they held a hunting knife under his chest, as motivation to keep him from faltering is the excuse that they use in place of abuse so it can seem that they are doing something for his own good when they are abusing him.