Child Abuse & Neglect starts early

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgJClID-zU&list=PL8522A4C304DF15CA

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=iGuCWXAN2WI

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvsboXrS2n0

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. 

 https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com

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.

Children left to fend for themselves

Child abuse statistics illustrate an alarming and troubling picture of abuse and neglect throughout the world. It is estimated that over 100 million girls and over 70 million boys who have not yet reached the age of eighteen are subjected to molestation or sexual abuse every year. This type of abuse is extremely detrimental to a child's physical, emotional, and psychological health. This type of abuse can subject a child to many irreversible, adverse consequences.

Information and statistics on child abuse estimate that over one and a half million children are forced into pornography or prostitution every year. Child prostitution is widespread throughout Asia, South America, and parts of Europe and North America. Often, abandoned or neglected children will resort to prostitution as a means of making the money that they need to survive.

In many areas, child prostitution is supported by child sex tourism, in which an individual will travel to another country in order to sexually exploit a child without legal consequences. Many of the children who take part in child sex tourism and child prostitution have been abducted and forced into it.

 

http://children-laws.laws.com/child-abuse/statistics-on-child-abuse

 

Child abuse is not only happening in the U.S but all around the world. These are statistics that shows that kids are being abused in so many ways and that something needs to be done about it. These statistics also shows how kids are being forced to participate in violence against themselves, they are being forced to do something that will harm them. It also shows how trafficking ties into abuse because these kids are taken from their country to enter another country to be abuse, used, and be involved in all types of activities such as sexual abuse, and prostitution. It also shows that kids who are left to fend for themselves, or have been neglected by their parents or caregivers will turn to prostitution in order for them to make money for them to survive.

 

                    

Teens in abusive realtionships are they aware?

"I thought it was normal for him to be so angry': Teenage victim of domestic abuse tells her story."

 

When a row erupted between Sophie Parker* and her teen boyfriend Andrew*, it felt like just another normal night out for the young couple.

But after he suddenly punched her, breaking her nose and knocking her out cold, the 17-year-old student finally realized she was in an abusive relationship.
Sophie had endured a year of wild outbursts and jealousy, controlling  behavior but, because she was inexperienced, she was unsure if that was normal.
She recalls: “I can see now that it wasn’t healthy at all. But back then I just wanted to be with my boyfriend.
"I had no idea what domestic violence was, and as I became isolated from my friends and family, I accepted his behavior as commonplace.”
Shocking statistics released today show that her experience is far more common than it should be.
The research, by charities Women’s Aid and Refuge, for Avon’s Speak Out Against Domestic Violence campaign, reveals that ignorance about domestic violence is widespread among teenagers.
As many as 56.6% of young girls didn’t know if excessive jealousy counted as domestic violence, and one in five of 16-18-year-olds were not sure if pressure from a partner to have sex constituted domestic violence.
Only 58% said they would report an incident, with the figure dropping to 35% in the youngest age groups.
 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/teenage-victim-domestic-abuse-tells-1745667#ixzz2StNNQQlC

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This is Sophie telling her story about how she was abuse and didn't have no knowledge of what abuse is. In her story she stated that she wasn't sure whether her boyfriend's behavior towards her was a normal thing to do in a relationship and that it wasn't until after the incident that she know for sure that the relationship she was in wasn't normal or healthy. Because Sophie was inexperience about abuse she wasn't sure and allowed him to control her. This is why we teenagers need to be aware of all the types of abuse that is out there and get the help we need before it is too late.

Abused and Living In Fear?

“Domestic abuse is the mental, physical and/or sexual abuse by a partner or ex-partner. In most cases, it is experienced

by women and children, and is perpetrated by men. Domestic abuse is often serious and sustained and can be life

threatening.” (Scottish Womens Aid, 2008).

"Terrorism is violence used in order to create fear; but it is aimed at creating fear in order that the fear, in turn,

will...accomplish whatever it is that the terrorist really desires." (Fromkin, 1975, 692-3).

Domestic abuse, on the other hand, directly terrorises people who are abused and their children; it

is a way in which abusers exert psychological and emotional control, and it often leads to changes to

behavior among those who are abused. Most of all, domestic abuse, like global terrorism, can be

seen as part of a desire to gain or enforce particular forms of political control. Its effects reinforce the

social and political structures that produce it. In the case of domestic abuse, the most important of

these is gender inequality, and this report also discusses inequalities of social class, sexual orientation,

ethnicity, migrant status, and disability. So domestic abuse, and the corrosive effects of the fears of

those who suffer it, are not simply an issue of individual or family conflict – they relate to, and is

sustained by, social inequalities at the level of society.

Domestic abuse, then, can be considered a more effective form of terrorism – it routinely creates

long-lasting fear and trauma, and affects vastly greater numbers of people than global terrorism. As

the accounts of those interviewed for this research show, the frequency, prolonged nature and setting

in which domestic abuse takes place all help to explain and justify these higher levels of fear and

trauma. Naming domestic abuse ‘terrorism’ is not to suggest that the two forms of violence are the same, 

they have a shared basis as attempts to exert fear and control.

www.dur.ac.uk/resources/beacon/EverydayTerrorism.pdf 

Every day abuse victims are living in fear because their partners have place fear within their hearts so they can have control over their victims. Once they place fear within their victims they can do pretty much anything to their victims because they know or hope that their partners won't report them to the police or refused to tell someone because they are scared of their partners. They also manipulate their victims to thinking that its their fault so they won't leave, in other words they want their victims to feel sorry for something they didn't do and want complete control of them. With the victims living in fear it makes it harder for them to leave the relationship. Some are locked up in their homes while their partners go out and enjoy their life.

          

Men too are abused

This may seem silly to some people for whatever reasons, but it is true that females are not the only ones that are being abused but men are also being abused as well. Its not about the strength because most people will say how can a women abuse a man? It is possible, there are all forms of abuse that anybody whether a male or a female can experience. Let me the attention that most women are stronger than men but like I said its not about the strength. The reason why I brought this up is because I feel that people are not paying enough attention to the fact that men can be abused by a women and that they are only focused on the abuse of women. It is clear that most people might not agree with me but everybody is entitled to their own opinion and that's what I believe.

"Men too are victims and women too are perpetrators; neither sex has a monopoly of vice or virtue" (David Thomas, 1993) 

Domestic abuse has, in recent years, been subjected to a very restricted analysis that is based on stereotypes of what a victim looks like and what an abuser looks like. Typically, the "victim" is portrayed as female, small, timid, oppressed - and the abuser is portrayed as male, large, brutish, aggressive. But such gender stereotypes are dangerous, and leave groups of people suffering and vulnerable because they do not fit the stereotypical descriptions which dominates domestic violence literature and support organizations.

"Women can’t really do any damage anyway?"
A perpetrator of abuse can always cause harm, whether this is physical harm or psychological damage.
Research into the data of victims of domestic violence that required hospital treatment has revealed that women are capable of inflicting very serious physical damage (Goldberg, 1984). In fact, some have reported that men are likely to suffer extremely serious injuries because of the prevalence of weapons used by women (George, 1992). At the extreme end of the scale, almost a quarter of all deaths in the US that were caused as the result of domestic violence were men (NCVS, 2002). Psychological damage, as the result of domestic abuse, can also have severe implications for a person's life - and this cannot and should not be discounted. Problems with depression, anxiety, substance abuse etc. can 
 accompany domestic abuse, which can affect all aspects of life.
http://www.pandys.org/articles/maledomesticviolence.pdf

This article shows how men too can be abused by women and that its not just women who be abused. The quote above means that both males and females do bad things to each other and its not just men. This also shows how people assume that only women can be victims of abuse and not men because women are small, and timid and men are large, strong, and aggressive and its not right to say these things because women too can abuse their husbands. The thing is that women use weapons against their partners, they tend to throw whatever they can get in their hands and use it as an excuse saying that they were defending their self.

Abusive Relationships Why Stay?

Many people are abuse in their relationships for many reasons. When most females are abused in a relationship they tend to blame their self if their partners decide to leave, or they start to apologize for something they know that is not their fault. I believe that most females stay in abusive relationships because they are in fear of what might happen to them when their partners find out that they are planning to leave them. Needless to say no one should be in a relationship where they are being abused.


Towards the end of high school, I met who I thought was my Prince Charming. Things happened very quickly, and before I knew it I was completely head over heels, in too deep. At first, he seemed like the perfect guy! He had a big, happy family, good grades, played sports, and high ambitions for his future. He was everything I ever wanted- so I thought. He even had a little sister, about 1 year old, that he adored and was so good to. I fell in love with him, and cared for nothing else.

At first, he was so perfect. He opened doors for me, surprised me with little things like flowers and my favorite candy, and always wanted to spend time with me. But after a few months of perfection, things got a little intense. Sex became the most important aspect of our relationship for him, and he made that very clear. If I was tired, or said no for any reason, he made it into a huge deal and would make me feel guilty, and eventually I’d give in. He began to slowly break me down into a person I didn't even recognize. I was always a strong, independent person who wasn't afraid to speak her mind or stand her ground. He made me forget that person. He had me skipping classes to go have sex with him, or else we'd be in a huge fight and he wouldn't talk to me. He got me to lie to my parents, my boss, my teachers, and even myself. All the while I told myself how much he loves me and how perfect we were- I was living in an alternate universe. One I had created to avoid the pain of the reality. I began to feel like I needed him, like I could not be without him. Nothing else mattered but being with him. So when he left for college, I broke apart completely, and things got worse. I wasn't allowed to have guy friends, or even go out with my regular friends. If he wanted me to spend two weeks with him, then I had to put everything in my life on hold to do so. And I did. I threw my life under the bus and put him first.

My friends and parents were telling me to leave him for the longest time and how awful he treated me, but I never listened. I never saw it. It wasn't until about 6 months after we ended contact that I fully realized the extent of the abuse.
http://www.gotinspiration.org/content/159-Abusive-Relationship-How-I-survived

This is a story that a female experienced in her relationship, her story explains how she met a decent guy or so she thought and how he was nice and got her things that she liked like roses and more. At the begging of what she thought was a good relationship turned out to be the worst relationship she came in contact with. Although the guy was nice in the beginning as their relationship went on his attitude became to change and he starts being mean towards her. It is obvious that she was in love with him because although her family and friends warned her to leave the relationship she refuse and stayed because she was love blind. I ask myself why would people stay in abusive relationships if the person is not treating you right? And from her story I understand that she was in love with him and felt that he was the one for her but she deserve better than that and I'm glad that she finally saw through it and left.

Kids are abused every year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVKLX1bgEkE&feature=player_detailpage

Kids all around the world are being abuse and neglected, and a lot of them are trapped in fear, and no way out. Children are crying for help they don't know what to do or where to go to look for help and this is where we need to step in and do our part. We can't watch our kids, our families, or our friends suffer from abuse and do nothing about it. This video display series of children being abuse, praying and hoping that help will come and with that they wait in pain, sorrow and are lonely waiting patiently and sometimes there is no answer.

Although the incidence of child abuse and neglect has been decreasing in recent years, at least 676,569 children, or almost 1 in every 100 children in the United States, were abused in 2011.
The majority (75 percent) of the children were victims of neglect (531,413 children), meaning a parent or guardian failed to provide for the child's basic needs. Forms of neglect include medical neglect (15,074 children), educational neglect, physical neglect, and emotional neglect.
Another 25 percent were victims of abuse, including physical abuse (118,825 children), sexual abuse (61,472 children), and emotional abuse.
An average of nearly five children die every day as a result of child abuse or neglect (1,545 in 2011).

Child Abuse Victims

Who is more likely to be abused or neglected?
No group of children is immune from being a victim of child abuse or neglect, although girls are more often the victims of sexual abuse than boys. For all other types of abuse and neglect, statistics are about equal for boys and girls.
Children of all races and ethnicities can be victims of child abuse. In 2011, nearly one-half of all victims of child abuse and neglect were White (43.9%), one-fifth (21.5%) were African-American, and one-fifth (22.1%) were Hispanic.
Although children of all ages experience abuse and neglect, it is the youngest children that are the most vulnerable, with almost 27% of the victims of child abuse and neglect being under the age of three years.

Reporting Child Abuse

Who reports child abuse and neglect?
In 2011, more than one-half (57 percent) of all child abuse cases and reports made to CPS agencies came from professionals who came in contact with the child, including teachers, lawyers, police officers, and social workers. Many people in these professions are required by law to report suspected abuse or neglect.
However, many reports (18 percent) came from nonprofessional sources, such as parents, other relatives, friends, and neighbors.
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/childabuse/a/05_abuse_stats.htm

This article explain the facts about abuse and neglect, it also shows how many children have been abuse and neglected by their parents and caregivers. This article also shows the type of abuse kids are facing. Child abuse and Neglect do not discriminate, every child are abuse no matter what the color of their skin is. This article also shows that young people are the main target of abuse and neglect.
                                                         



Kelsey's Story ♥ (Original)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWow42TCwzg&feature=player_detailpage

This is a sad story about a girl name Kelsey, who died from abuse on Oct 11, 2005. What this video is showing is what happens when kids are abused by their parents, caregivers or step families. This video shows how Kelsey was just a little girl when her mom's boy friend started abusing her. It also shows how most men are heartless and just don't care what they do to little girls. Because of her step dad abusing her she lost both of her legs and her life as young as she is. People may ask who would do such a thing to a little girl? The answer to that is heartless people who love to hurt little girls and other people, people who probably have been hurt by others and went through some things would do that.

This video shows a young innocent girl who don't know anything, a girl who have her life ahead of her, a girl that could have dreams and experience the world is not living today because a heartless man took her life away. Abuse happens every day as we move on with our lives, please if you know anybody or see anyone being abuse help them in any way you can. People are dying from abuse and we need to do something at least make an effort, after seeing this video parents please understand that your child is important and put your child first. If you noticed that something is wrong with your child do something about it don't just sit there and say she or he will be okay because once that person is gone the only thing you will be left with is guilt.

Here you have a pretty and healthy baby girl who is full of life, happiness, love, and loves to smile and what he did snatch her life away for no reason now she's gone and he's alive. Abuse needs to stop before it get out of control, if he didn't abuse this girl she would have been alive. People need to pay attention to abuse because it is something that is destroying our society and raising the crime rate.


         

                           

The effect bad parenting have on children can lead to abuse.

Children are precious gifts from God and for some parents and caregivers to allow their kids to pick up after their bad habit is worse. Children living with parents that do bad things and that don't care if their kids are seeing what they do or say can affect the child's future. The way parents raised their kids if in a negative way can damage the child. Children tend to follow their parent's foot step because they look up to them for everything and because they don't know anything better and they think that most of the things their parents do is good that's why parents need to set good examples to their kids.

The most important role parents play in raising their kids is that their kids will have positive impact on the world once they are on their own. The negative impact parents have on their kids have gotten worse everyday, this is because most parents would leave their kids with their nannies or with their grandparents to take care of them. "A drug abusing parent is one negative effect on children. a home where the mother or father does abuse hard drugs like cocaine sniffing, heroines will interrupts the child's moral values in the society. This kid of early exposure to drugs from their parent or caregiver will mislead them to drug sniffing, mental and health problems." (www.betterlife1.com).  This shows how the parents or caregivers have negative influence on their kids and that the child don't know right from wrong which can lead the child to thinking that the bad things are okay to do.

"The effects of bad parenting on children can have long-lasting ramifications. The saying that "Children learn what they live" is quite accurate. If a child is being raised in a home where they are not being treated very well, the child is being set up for a lifetime   of difficulties." (http://www.kids.lovetoknow.com). This is saying that the effects of bad parenting have long lasting consequences on the children which means that they will encounter many problems in their life which will also affect people around them. "Children learn what they live" means that the way children live they can learn many things whether its positive or negative, and after learning this they can take it out in the world. A lot of parents do their very best for their children and raised them in a good way but others based on what they went through parent their kids in a bad way.

                                

A lack of male involvement leads to abusive relationship.

Having both parents in children lives is very important because one parent can not do everything on their own. It is also important because the other parent could be missing out on the child's life and once you missed out on your child life it will be hard to make up the amount of time you missed. Missing out on your child life can have a hughe impact on your child life, they may feel that you don't care or love them.

" What seems  clear is that children growing up without their father in the home face an increased risk of developing significant problems. This does not mean that all childern who grow up in the fatherless homes will encounter problems. Indeed, many of them will do just fine. But research indicates that fatherless children face more obstacles than those who who grow up with both parents, and are at greater risk for a host of developmental problems. (www.cyep.org). This shows the importance of having both parents in children's lives. It also shows that those who grow up without a father ecounter problems that will hurt and stay with them for the rest of their lives. They will end up in abusive relationship or end up being abusive themselves.

Fatherlessness is not only happening in America, but it is also happening all around the world and it is becoming an international problem. Most girls who lives without a father suffers a lot, especially when in a relationship with a guy. This is because they are not aware of how guys are supposed to treat them and what they should do if in an abusive relationship. "Sometimes, these girls are especially prone to abuse or victimization because they are so "loved starved" that they tolerate relationships with poor boundaries." (www.insightnews.com).  This qoute is saying that girls need their father in their lives to teach them how to be in a good relationship as to where their partners won't abuse them or if their partners do they can report it to their fathers and they can help them. Girls not having their fathers present in their lives can lead them to fall for the wrong guy, they need their fathers to protect them, not that their mothers can't do that but in a way that the mother cant. What I mean by this is that mothers are important too, but a father would know how to go about the situation since he's a guy and knows how they act.