Child abuse is the intentional, unexplainable
infliction of physical, moral, and sexual pain and
suffering on a child. It is caused mainly by parents
who were maltreated as children themselves. Causes
also include stress, poverty, and/or unemployment.
There are many cases of abuse, but those such as Elisa
Izquierdo''s stand out. Child abuse consists of
various different causes, types, and cases.
There are many causes for child abuse, but some
project over the rest. In some cases children are
mistreated when parents or caretakers have maladaptive
responses to stressful situations or feel powerless.
Searching for relief, they may hit someone with even
less power than them, and these are often children.
Other times it is the result of family problems over
which the abuser has no control. Alcohol was said to
be involved in fourteen percent of the cases of abuse
and in eighteen and a half percent of the cases of
neglect. ""Religion, residence in the......
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