Child Abuse

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This paper examines how child abuse can assume varied forms including physical, psychological, emotional, sexual, and emotional abuse. It also looks at how one of the most common forms of abuse is neglect and how child abuse results in numerous long-term effects on the victim's later functioning and those later effects are demonstrated in low self-esteem and maladaptive behavior. The paper focuses especially on the problem of child sexual abuse within the context of the family.

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"Child abuse can assume varied forms including physical, psychological, emotional, sexual, and emotional abuse. One of the most common forms of abuse is neglect. Child abuse results in numerous long-term effects on the victim's later functioning and those later effects are demonstrated in low self-esteem and maladaptive behavior. The paper will focus especially on the problem of child sexual abuse within the context of the family. With the advent of the Internet, abuse has taken the new form of exploitation, whereby the parent knowingly allows the child to be used as a subject in child pornography. "

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