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Question: What is the difference between child abuse/neglect and discipline? Parents often use discipline to teach a child right from wrong starting at an early age, but what is the line drawn in the sand that if crossed, is actually child abuse? Chapter 10 discusses victimization at the “beginning” of life (childhood) and the exact components that can distinguish both abuse and neglect of a child. Child maltreatment can take two major forms: abuse and neglect. Neglect results when a child’s basic needs are not met and abuse occurs when a person causes harm to a child, and consists of actions that are done to a child rather than what a person fails to do for a child (Daigle & Muftic, 2019).
Comment: Often times we tend to think of abuse as a black and white situation, however Chapter 10 shows and discusses that there are a variety of behaviors and ways that abuse can take place. The readings discuss various types of abuse, such as physical, emotional, and sexual. The characteristics that symbolize these types of abuse are helpful to lay out the guidelines in order to be able to tell that a child is in fact being abused. Physical abuse is defined in the reading as the deliberate attempt to harm a child and comes with characteristics such as hitting, burning, and slapping; which are all blatant signs of physical abuse that we all knew about and could tell. Sexual abuse is another form that is pretty well known and understood across society, coming with characteristics such as rape, sexual assault, and molestation. However, the characteristics of emotional abuse is what really sparked my interest because these are all things I’ve seen parents of my friends say to their children or even have had my parents say to me at one point, that I wasn’t aware constituted emotional abuse. Emotional abuse is defined as damaging to the child’s mental health and/or social development, and lists characteristics such as belittling, shaming, and humiliating a child; name calling and making negative comparisons to others; frequent yelling, threatening, or bullying; ignoring or rejecting a child as punishment; withholding hugs, kisses, and other forms of physical contact from the child; and exposing the child to violence or the abuse of others. While I can’t say that I was emotionally abused across my childhood and I certainly can’t speak for my friends on their relationships with their parents, I’ve had some of these things happen to me before at the hands of my parents and have seen it happen to my friends as well, all the while not knowing that these were defined characteristics of emotional abuse.
Connection: As I previously stated, some of the characteristics of emotional abuse discussed in the chapter I’ve seen before or had happen to me, but I didn’t understand at the time that these behaviors constituted some kind of abuse. Sexual and physical are both instances of abuse that to me are mostly straight forward, and the characteristics of these types of abuse are, I feel, well known throughout society. Emotional abuse has layers to it, and some of the characteristics contributed to this type of abuse are actually behaviors that most likely everyone has experienced at some point in their lives. When I was younger and would get in trouble I remember being given the silent treatment by my parents for hours, as well as being told I was “no good” and that I should be better like my brother was. Before the readings I had no idea that these behaviors were considered emotional abuse, and I feel like I’m not the only one who has experienced behavior like this and wasn’t aware that I was technically being “emotionally abused”. Emotional abuse is as serious as the other types, and while it’s okay to discipline your children, parents should be more aware and careful of the boundaries of discipline in order to prevent exposing a child to any type of abuse; as abuse as lasting emotional and mental consequences all around.

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