Çocuk istismarı ve ihmal

Abstract

Children's physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect are widespread social and health problem across societies. Child abuse covers all kinds of attitudes and neglects that affect and limit children physical and emotional development by the parents or child careers. Child abuse affects the children's emotional and physical development negatively. A child whose emotional development is disturbed lives with very serious psychological and communication problems as well as decrease of life quality. Child abuse can be a learned and passed through cognitive behavior. It is known that the perpetrators of child abuse are also victims of child abuse in their own childhoods. Child abuse can be one kind of cycle of violence. Today's victims of child abuse have a tendency to become the perpetrators of tomorrow's child of abuse. Child abuse can be prevented by the collective efforts of the whole community. Establishing a collective consciousness about the harms of the child abuse can become the initial step of fighting against child abuse. The considerable success can be reached when effective public policies, which attribute to collective consciousness addressing different fractions of the society are established.