CHILD ABUSE – INTRODUCTION
The ideal parent should love, nurture and wisely discipline his children so they may develop as ideal children and into ideal adults. But the real world is rarely like that.
Even with the best will in the world and no matter how much we love our children, they sometimes do get us down. Perhaps we sometimes smack them as a result of our own anger or frustration rather than in a genuine desire to teach them not to do the wrong thing.
Recognise yourself in this description? Perhaps if you answer yes, you have some objection to seeing it included under a discusion on child abuse. It really is all a matter of degree.
Children of all ages are frequently abused in our community. This may be physical or mental abuse, they may be deprived of proper nutrition or they may be sexually abused. While we may rightly be offended by this behavior we will not solve the problem nor help the victims by seeking only to punish those parents who abuse their children.
There are many reasons why these parents may fall below what we regard as proper behavior to their children.
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