What Is Child Abuse?

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What Are The Types of Child Abuse and Neglect?

Definitions of abuse include physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect (known also as emotional abuse.)
Harm to children can result from:
· Physical injury, such as beatings, burns and bites.
· Constant criticism, insults, the withholding of love.
· Rape, (improper touching), incest.
· The failure to provide food, clothing, shelter, or medical care.
By Prevent Child Abuse America

CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE

Because this web site is geared to the Christian community and many homes have filters on their computers that would prevent them from access to the web site if certain words were used, we are unable to post the comprehensive definitions of (word omitted) abuse. If you would like comprehensive definitions of (word omitted) abuse please e-mail SharonM@titus2menandwomen.org and we will be glad to forward the definitions to you by e-mail as printed in Dr. David B. Allender's book
'The Wounded Heart'. Also, we replaced certain words with "(word omitted)" to keep the information informative, but not offensive.

WHY DO WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE?

We need to know about (word omitted) abuse because (word omitted) abuse of children is all around us in our homes and communities. The most quoted statistic is that five hundred thousand children are (word omitted) abused each year The unfortunate problem is that parents and I believe especially Christian parents choose to believe that it only happens to someone else. -Sharon

WHAT IS SEXUAL ABUSE?

Quoted from 'The Wounded Heart'
by Dr. Dan B. Allender

"What is (word omitted) abuse? It seems that many people operate on the principle that whatever happened to them is not abuse, but if it had happened to someone else or if it had been a bit more extreme, then it would have been abusive... Because of this kind of confusion about what constitutes (word omitted) abuse, it is imperative to have a clear definition:
***(word omitted) abuse is any contact or interaction (visual, verbal, or psychological)
between a child/adolescent and an adult when the child/adolescent is being
used for the (word deleted) stimulation of the perpetrator or any other person. "

Charles F. Johnson defines child (word omitted) abuse as "any activity with a child, before the age of legal consent, that is for the (word deleted) gratification of an adult or a significantly older child."

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