What Is Child Abuse?

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• Physical neglect…a refusal of, or delay in, seeking health care, abondonment, inadeuqate supervision.
• Educational neglect…allowing a child to be chronically truant or not enrolling a child in school by the mandatory age in your state.
• Emotional neglect…allowing a child to see and hear extreme spouse abuse
• Emotional abuse…can inculde screaming, yelling, belittling, name calling, emotional detachment, lack of love and affection, scapegoating-such as blaming a child for the problems of the adults. Emotional abuse, according to Richard D. Krugman, "has been defined as the rejection, ignoring, criticizing, isolation, or terrorizing of children, all of which have the effect of eroding their self-esteem."

--Sharon Merhalski

PHYSICAL ABUSE

Physical abuse is characterized by physical injury, usually inflicted as a result of a beating or inappropriately harsh discipline. -Broken Spirits Network

Physical abuse is the nonaccidental infliction of physical injury to a child. The abuser is usually a family member or other caretaker, and is more likely to be male. In 1996, 24% of the confirmed cases of U.S. child abuse involved physical abuse. -Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

The usual physical abuse scenario involves a parent who loses control and lashes out at a child. The trigger may be normal child behavior such as crying or dirtying a diaper. Unlike nonabusive parents, who may become angry at or upset with their children from time to time but are genuinely loving, abusive parents tend to harbor deep-rooted negative feelings toward their children.
Unexplained or suspicious bruises or other marks on the skin are typical signs of physical abuse, as are burns. Skull and other bone fractures are often seen in young abused children, and in fact, head injuries are the leading cause of death from abuse. Children less than one year old are particularly vulnerable to injury from shaking. This is called shaken baby syndrome or shaken impact syndrome. Not surprisingly, physical abuse also causes a wide variety of behavioral changes in children. -Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
A rare form of physical abuse is Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which a caretaker (most often the mother) seeks attention by making the child sick or appear to be sick-Gale Encylopedia of Medicine.

RITUAL ABUSE

Adding this subject to this material only came after much thought and prayer on the matter. I realize that occult practices are not uttered in churches and rarely among Christians at all. However, I have counseled with several Christian families and individuals, and have done enough reading, to know that the problem is real, and more prevalent than any of us would choose-or should choose-- to even think about. --Sharon Merhalski

Another disturbing trend shows an increase in reports of ritual abuse, or satanic ritual abuse (SRA), in which.... children are systematically and repeatedly tortured...(in uspeakable ways). -Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology

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