Emotional Abuse (also known as: Verbal abuse, mental abuse, and psychological maltreatment), includes acts or the failures to act by parents or caretakers that have caused or could cause, serious behavioral, cognitive, emotional or mental disorders. This can include parents/caretakers using extreme and/or bizarre forms of punishment, such as confinement in a closet or dark room or being tied to a chair for long periods of time or threatening or terrorizing a child. Less severe acts, but no less damaging are belittling or rejecting treatment, using derogatory terms to describe the child, habitual scape goating or blaming, the child (Herman, Judith Lewis p.127).

Neglect, which is the failure to provide for the child’s basic needs. Neglec

Children are affected horribly by child abuse. It ruins their lives. Child abuse is on a steady rise in the United States. Between the year 1986 and 1993 the number of reported child abuse incidents doubled for 1.4 million to 2.8 million (Shengold, Leonard, Soul Murder p. 234). In 1994, over 3 million children were reported for child abuse and neglect to child protective service agencies in the United Sates (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services).

than likely know someone who has been abused. Many child abuse incidents occur, but often times they are not reported by the child. Some may think that it would be easy for a child to report that a loved one is abusing them, but actually the child is afraid of disappointing their parent. Even when a child does decide to report and abusive parent, there is no guarantee that they will receive any punishment for the judicial system. Over 90%j of child sexual abuse cases present to prosecutors do not go to trial (Shengold, Leonard, Soul Murder p. 237) over half are not charged or eventually has the charges dropped. When charges are dismissed the child begins to fell that what the parent did to them is right.

Child abuse has been around in our society for as long as any one can remember. The link between substance abuse and child abuses has strengthened over the years. It is estimated that substance-abusing parents directly affect nine to ten million children under the age of eighteen (Ogintz). In 1994, eleven states had average of 35% of their substantiated cases involve substance abuse, with the percentage ranging from % to 65% (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services).

According to a 1994 survey, physical abuse represented 21% of confirmed cases, sexual abuse 11%, neglect 49% and emotional maltreatment 3%

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