An Analysis of Physical Child Abuse

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This paper explores risk factors of physical child abuse. It questions who abusers are and reasons why it occurs. It then analyzes what society is doing about abuse and what the risk factors of non-related caregivers abusing a child are. This paper uses two different studies on the problem.

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"Child abuse is a broad term encompassing many acts against a child in a harmful manner. Physical abuse is a narrower term, but still vastly defined. The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect defines physical abuse as "physical injury .... As a result of punching, beating, kicking, biting, shaking, throwing, stabbing, choking, hitting, burning, or otherwise harming a child.""

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