Child Abuse and Neglect

Child Abuse and Neglect

Laura Benoit-Joyner

Unit 3 Assignment 1

Capella University

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May 1, 2016

Child Abuse and Neglect

Child abuse and neglect has today become our society’s fail to address a number of issues that need to be solved. Unfortunately, child abuse and neglect is one of the major issues that our society and country at large is plagued with. To further worsen situation is the fact that the society has neglected this whole issue and very few people care to bring it to attention of the world. In essence, every year millions of children are abused and neglected hence put to risks and suffrages that are neither of their choice nor right. This is always overlooked, particularly because every person has a different way or view of what exactly includes abuse or neglect of a child. More tragically is the fact that a few people are willing to report such cases of abuse and neglect on account that the child might not really know what to be molested is. Examples or child abuse cases are physical abuse and sexual abuse. I have therefore chosen this topic to give light of facts about child abuse and neglect and attempt to elucidate the needs to really bring such actions and cases to complete end.

Child abuse neglect and influence on child’s development

According to Bronfenbrenner (2009), child development is sometimes affected by their social relationships and the world around them. He reiterates the fact that ecological systems theory provides an approach that is used in answering this question. And since a person’s development is affected by their surroundings, even child’s development should be put in check, least their development is affected in same way.

Bronfenbrenner divided a person’s surrounding or the environment into five distinct levels: the microsystem, the mesosystem, the exosystem, the macrosystem, and the chronosystem. All these levels influence a child’s development and child in one way or another.

How the system affects...