Child Abuse

A)    http://www.psychohistory.com/htm/05_history.html this part of the chapter interested me the most (history of child abuse). I chose this article because I feel no matter what a child does could never amount to you physically, emotionally, or sexually abusing them. I wanted to learn how this came about and where this started. [Image]B)   C)    http://youtu.be/bv52n2jmGlY this video has facts as well as pictures showing you how dangerous child abuse is and how often it occurs D)    http://socialproblemsucd.wikispaces.com/Child+Abuse this link tells the definition, it tells signs of what to look for if a child is being abused. It tells signs for physical, sexual, emotional abuse, as well as neglect. It shows what the consequences of child abuse leads to such as personality disorders. This link also tells what solutions are available to stop child abuse. E)      This poem is what I was thinking about while reading chapter 4 (child abuse)   POEM-Lost Innocence Looking back on a time and place Seeing a child's innocent face Knowing that things aren't as they appear For inside she cries silent tears Deep inside she is filled with pain She feels dirty and full of shame Innocence lost at a very young age Locked this child in a pain filled cage There is no freedom or escape From the fact this child was raped While the guilty man is roaming free This child is sentenced to eternity Eternity locked away with all this shame She can't help but feel that she was to blame Even though common sense says it was not her fault She can't seem to help from having these thoughts What ifs' keep running through her mind She keeps going back to those moments in time If there isn't something different she could have done Why didn't she scream or at least try to run Fear kept her frozen to the spot While this grown man did what he should have not Shame and fear made her keep the silence Kept her telling anyone about the violence The thing that is shocking beyond belief Is that this child could not get any relief The same thing happened again and again The first one was just how it began More than one man did his worst None of them caring about the child they hurt After the first time was it easy to tell Was it her pain and shame they could smell? With every touch a part of her died Now she is in a prison that has no gate Every one of them sealing her fate - Anonymous