Compose a 500 words essay on WHY WE ABUSE OUR CHILDREN. Needs to be plagiarism free!

In many instances, public outrage draws attention to the social system’s lack of power to prevent and protect children, and the knock on effect that carries into adulthood. There are numberless domestic and international, institutional and social organizations that work toward the prevention of child abuse.

Child abuse occurs as a result of broken homes, irresponsible parenting and stress due to financial circumstances. (thesis)

Broken home is a social phenomenon which directly can lead to child abuse. This usually occurs, because the couple separates and the signle parent has to take all the responsibility for upbrining the kids. When parents split, this results in decreasing of the income and the single parent is forced to work longer hours, has two jobs and do not spend enough time with his offspring. The lack of parent’s presence, control, love and care makes the children to feel unwanted. Thus, they seek reassurance from external sources – such as gangs or street fights. When the single parent faces the fact that she /he can not handle the behavior of his kid in his emotional distress he uses aggression. In most of the cases the aggression has a physical form, transformed into child abuse.

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (2004) reported that parents dependent on or abusing alcohol a