Beliefs & Feelings About Child Abuse

If you are seeking child abuse help, it matters significantly what you think, feel, and believe. If you are an adult survivor of child abuse, you may still be struggling with these things. Contrary to what society or anyone else has told you, thinking, feeling, and believing are the essence of your being, and vital to your mental health. We want to help you look into your troubling thoughts, feelings, and beliefs, and discover what lies beneath. It shows that the physical, psychological and behavioral consequences of child abuse and neglect impact not just the child and family, but the community as a whole. It affects the communty the reason is because they notice whats wrong and right. Child abuse is when the children are being mistreated and not taken care of propertly. For example, the children can be:

• Physical: unexplained burns, bites, bruises, and broken bones or parent's philosophy of harsh physical discipline.
• Emotional: extreme behavior, delayed physical or emotional development, attempted suicide, and belittling by a parent or caregiver.
• Sexual:difficulty walking or sitting, reports of nightmares or bedwetting, sudden changes in appetite, sudden refusal to change in front of others or participate in gym activities
• Neglect: frequent absences from school, obvious lack of medical or dental care, severe body odor, stays home alone