Child Abuse the Real Enemy of Youth:
Causes and Consequence
“Dissociation — complete dissociation — is an emotional protection strategy that totally and completely removes painful realities from the mind and body of the survivor.”
― Kathy Broady
- Introduction
- Topics:
Children who are abused and go on to commit crimes-Physical abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, how the child manifests into committing crime
- Issue:
The effects of abuse and maltreatment on the development during early childhood.
- Thesis statement:
While facing the horrors of broken innocence, child abuse can have negative long-term effects. When harm is near, the causes lead to consequences preventing not only child development but in turn can causethe victims to offend in adulthood.
- Body Section one
- The history of neglect and how it has negative social effects on children who have been in toxic homes andguardians’ effects on these youths
- Why this is a concerning (statistics)
- Who is affected?
- Examples of abuse from physical to sexual-
- Gabriel Fernandez case (victim)
- Gypsy Rose Blanchard (victim to offender)
- Larry Nassar (sex offender)
- Body Section Two
- Cause/effect
- Because these events happened what is being done about it?
-Child welfare system
-What is the child protection service (CPS) doing?
-What legal preventions are there? (Constitutional rights)
- If left untreated children will continue to be victimized and survivors will have unhealable scars
- Offenders will continue to offend
- Offenders as a result: Statistical facts
- Adulthood drug usage/drug offenses
- Adult prostitution
- Student dropout rates/ school disruptions
- Body Section Three
Solutions:
- The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act CAPTA)
- Preventions from CDC https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childabuseandneglect/resources.html
- Criminal sentencing and registry of offenders
- Resources and counseling of children
- Conclusion (1-2 paragraphs)
- Restate the introduction and connect it back to the thesis
Petersen, A. C., Joseph, J., &Feit, M. N. (2014). New Directions in child abuse and neglect research. The National Academies Press.
The text in this national research printing has emphasized the topic of child abuse. Research by the National Research Council, the Institute of Medicine, and the Committee on Law and Justice has come together to share the findings of how children’s development has been affected by these events. Every year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children and many more go unreported. The research of long-term human and fiscal consequences of child abuse and neglect not only impact themselves but impacts families, and future relationships and roles in society. This text provides an overview of the research on child abuse and neglect.
Cicchetti, D. (2005). Child maltreatment: Theory and research on the causes and consequences of child abuse and neglect. Cambridge Univ. Press.
The theory of child maltreatment is from the works of multiple types of researchers who focus on all social and behavioral effects of children who go through traumatic maltreatment. These maltreatment occurrences can be caused by emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. This publishing from Cambridge University has assembled important references that bridge the gap between the study of child maltreatment and child development. With over forty contributors in the writing of the research text,Specific chapters examine the effect of maltreatment on cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional development in children. The volume highlights developmental and clinical psychology, psychiatry, social work, pediatrics, sociology, and law.