The Dark Legacy of Child Abuse

“The Dark Legacy of Child Abuse”

By Adele Horin

In the article “The Dark Legacy of Child Abuse”, the author. Adele Horin deals with the issue about the impacts or effects on the child on how they will undergo their lives ahead. Child abuse can result in immediate adverse physical effects but it is also strongly associated with developmental problems and with many chronic physical and psychological effects, including subsequent ill-heath, including higher rates of chronic conditions, high-risk health behaviors and shortened lifespan.

The author makes an extensive reference to the 2005 Australian Bureau of Statistics that shown the average proportion of population experiencing sexual abuse as a child.

Maltreated child may grow up to be maltreating adults. It was reported in 1991, almost 7 million American infants receive child care services, such as day care, and much of that care is poor.

The author is applying the statistic as one of the types of supporting details which shows in paragraph 1 wherein she has quoted the figures of women would have experienced sexual abuse as a child.

The author’s view is congruent with most other research regarding this issue. The author begins her case by stating about the traumatic among these children. Among the long-term correlates of a sexual abuse history are “post-traumatic stress” symptoms such as nightmares, flashbacks, dissociation and sleep disturbance. Despite the many long-term impacts of childhood sexual victimization reported, the majority instruments used in such article have been measured originally developed without reference to child abuse and thus potentially less sensitive to abuse-specific symptomatology.

Woman who had been molested as children reported more anxiety, depression, dissociation, sexual problems, sleep disturbance and post-traumatic symptoms than did their non-abused peers, and have more likely to have been divorced at the time of study.

The author generally appears to be inductive in her reasoning, as she provides all specific support about case of sexual child abuse. They give the statements which mean this criminal create worries to the community safety, especially for children. So they have to be more careful. She also tells us that the total of child victims increasing every year among below 15. Paragraph 11 presents an example of inductive reasoning.

The author in line 23, seems that she is not sure the exact findings which she indicates the possible high prevalence of childhood trauma. Thus, these findings may be general only to the extent that the figures adequately represent that particular population. Moreover, there is a gap in his reasoning as she does express the difficulties faced to know if the tough response is the right one. Child abuse is complex and difficult to study. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), estimation of the rates of child maltreatment vary widely by country, not only Australia, depending how they are defined.

The author also stated the main idea to support her own point of view in the article. She states that the children become more trauma as the embarrassed child victim. Child with sexual abuse is mostly too young to know how to express what is happening around them and how to seek for help. This will results and affects a lifetime depression. The author shows in the article that children who experience sexual abuse tend to recover and took a long time to obtain a better result if they don’t have supportive peoples around them.

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