Mental Health
Child Abuse: Change Begins with Awareness
Those of you who are long time visitors know that child abuse and especially emotional abuse is a topic dear to my heart, because of my personal experiences with childhood emotional (sometimes physical) abuse.
Angela Mettler writes that awareness important in fighting child abuse, and understanding what this means.
According to South Dakota law, child abuse and neglect is when a child is inflicted physical and/or emotional harm, mistreatment, abandonment, or exploitation in many shapes and forms. Reports can be phoned in, sent in (written) by mail, or in person - and anonymously when required.
Often we think of child abuse cases as the most dramatic, visual ones - bruises and cuts and physical injuries. We often don’t see the hidden signs of abuse, and these are the emotionally abused children who give behavioral clues that something is terribly wrong in their lives.
Where child abuse is concerned, I’ll use this quote from Napoleon Bonaparte:
“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
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