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Jabria 1

Jabria Pittman
Ms.Barnes
English 1
23 April 2013 Emotional Child Abuse
Have you ever been a victim of emotional child abuse? 204,500 of children recorded is emotionally abused. There are several reasons why emotional child abuse impacts our society due to child behavior,childs future, and recovery of the abused child. Emotional child abuse is when you are verbally harmed. It could be something like calling a child out of his or her name or telling them that they are a mistake on this earth. A child behavior can go from good to bad.
The child's future may also be affected because the harm done to them. They may also do to another. Child abuse can cause major behavior problems in the work, family, and other types of society. The hardest part of all is when a child is left to recover after years of abuse and being basically told that they are nobodies. Children abused often show demanding behavior,extreme, or aggression.Sometimes kids are aggressive but they can become overly aggressive. Aggressiveness can be biting, shoving, hitting, and other foul harm. Studies show when a child is overly aggressive it lowers the children's IQ. Usually when a is being abused they show sudden changes in behavior or school performance.Being too aggressive can also result in peers rejection.
The children may feel the child is different because the child may become anti­social.

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Child aggressiveness can also become bullying. The child may bully their peers or other people around them. They may use foul language to other adults and children. They child may feel left out and feel alone. They may feel that bullying is the only way to cope with their feelings. Aggression is caused by hitting,yelling, or some other harm caused to child by the abuser.Another behavior problem can include depression. A child can suffer
PTSD,Post­Traumatic Stress Disorder. This will cause the kid to have bad dreams,
frightening

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