Most parents and other caregivers do not intend to hurt their children, but abuse is defined by the effect on the child, not the motivation of the parents or caregiver.Tens of thousands of children each year are traumatized by physical, sexual, and emotional abusers or by caregivers who neglect them.Child abuse as common as it is shocking. Most of us can’t imagine what would make an adult use violence against a child, and the worse the behavior is, the more unimaginable it seems. But the incidence of parents and other caregivers consciously, even willfully, committing acts that harm the very children they’re supposed to be nurturing is a sad fact of human society that cuts across all lines of ethnicity and class. Whether the abuse is rooted in the perpetrator’s mental illness, substance abuse, or inability to cope, the psychological result for each abused child is often the same: deep emotional scars and a feeling of worthlessness. Children’s Social Care work with families to enable children to live safe from harm within their family and the community wherever possible. All parents experience difficulties at some time and need help from family and friends. Sometimes some parents require the support of professional and voluntary agencies to assist them with specific problems and challenges they face. For a small number of children and their parents’ additional support will be necessary to protect them from abuse and neglect and provide them with support and services so that they can have the same opportunities open to them as all children and young people (Welcome to Bedford Borough Council). Children suffer most of their lives when being abused. When you learn a child has been abused it is critical to report it. Children look for adults of a friend to talk to but never find anyone who is willing to listen to them. Children lose courage in trying to have help to get them out of the
Most parents and other caregivers do not intend to hurt their children, but abuse is defined by the effect on the child, not the motivation of the parents or caregiver.Tens of thousands of children each year are traumatized by physical, sexual, and emotional abusers or by caregivers who neglect them.Child abuse as common as it is shocking. Most of us can’t imagine what would make an adult use violence against a child, and the worse the behavior is, the more unimaginable it seems. But the incidence of parents and other caregivers consciously, even willfully, committing acts that harm the very children they’re supposed to be nurturing is a sad fact of human society that cuts across all lines of ethnicity and class. Whether the abuse is rooted in the perpetrator’s mental illness, substance abuse, or inability to cope, the psychological result for each abused child is often the same: deep emotional scars and a feeling of worthlessness. Children’s Social Care work with families to enable children to live safe from harm within their family and the community wherever possible. All parents experience difficulties at some time and need help from family and friends. Sometimes some parents require the support of professional and voluntary agencies to assist them with specific problems and challenges they face. For a small number of children and their parents’ additional support will be necessary to protect them from abuse and neglect and provide them with support and services so that they can have the same opportunities open to them as all children and young people (Welcome to Bedford Borough Council). Children suffer most of their lives when being abused. When you learn a child has been abused it is critical to report it. Children look for adults of a friend to talk to but never find anyone who is willing to listen to them. Children lose courage in trying to have help to get them out of the