The unspoken child

We live in a world filled with poverty, regret, and abuse. No one is safe in this world. Everyday, five children die from being abused. That’s roughly 1,825 children that die in one year. Child abuse is a real issue around the world. There are four types of child abuse:
physical, sexual, emotional, and neglect. My goal is that this essay will inform you about the different types of abuses in more depth, and help you comprehend how big of a problem it is.

The most common type of abuse is physical abuse. The definition of physical abuse is a non-accidental trauma or physical injury caused by punching, beating, kicking, biting, burning or otherwise harming a child. Actually, two years ago, my friend got physically abused by her
stepdad. She came to school with bruises all over her body and face. I felt so bad for her, I couldn't even imagine how much pain she must have been in. That was what really spiked my interest to research more about child abuse.

Another type of abuse is sexual abuse. The definition of sexual abuse is sexual intercourse or sexually touching a child. Did you know that one out of three girls, and one out of five boys will be sexually abused before they reach the age of eighteen.

Emotional abuse. Emotional abuse is basically parents or caretakers constantly putting you down all the time and verbally abusing you. They make their children or child feel like nothing because the don't have any respect for them. They will often call their children stupid,
dumb, tell them they're worthless day after day. When you tell children constantly that they are nothing because they're worthless, they will eventually start to believe it. By doing that can
create a whole different issue in the child's life, such as depression and confidence issues. Considering that most children who get abused are under the age of 12 years old, the parents or caretakers are setting their child's life up for failure.

The last kind of abuse is neglect. The definition of neglect is failure to provide basic needs for their child. The truth is multiple parents that neglect their children would rather buy drugs and alcohol for themselves, rather than buy food, water, clothes for their child.

You're probably wondering right now, why on earth people would have children if they aren't going to take care of them and are just going to abuse them. People abuse children for multiple reasons; one is that they never wanted to have a child in the first place. Another reason is they are too immature to take care of a child and don't know how to raise it properly. That's another reason why teenagers shouldn't have sex is because they think to themselves that it isn't going to happen to them and it does, then they don't know how to handle it. The number one reason people abuse child is because they got abused when they were younger and want the children to feel the pain they went threw.

Our world isn't perfect. It definitely has flaws, but if you think about it, everything has flaws. Nothing is perfect and everyone makes mistakes. Abuse is a ignoramus problem in the world. My question to you is, how are you going to change that?