Coraima Gomez
June 16, 2013
Child Abuse Must Be Stopped

Ever wonder why the society has so much parents getting away with crimes? In a world where anything can happen we see children everyday being mistreated by the one person that should be taking care of them and giving them love. Parents discipline their children and act as if they are real parents but really those parents that abuse and hurt their children are not good parents at all. Parents should care for the health of their child and treat their child better than what they threat them. Why is it that parents have the right to abuse their own kids but nobody else can touch them or abuse them? Why is it that parents don’t understand that every child needs a parents comfort? Child abuse is now a global problem that escalates every year. Child abuse will not be stopped if we don’t try and punish parents that do harm to their children. Parents should be legally punished if they are verbally, emotionally, sexually, or mentally abusing their children.
Parents don’t see that the most terrible thing for children is to be physically abused. Physical abuse is one of the most common ways a parent abuses their child. Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, injury, or other physical suffering of the body. Once a parent hits a child they will be marked for life, a child may not have a mark on them but that child will always have that memory in their head. No matter what the child did or did not do there is no reason why a parent should be abusing their child. It is very hard for a child to forget something especially if the parent is constantly abusing a child. A 2004 study done by the US Department of Health and Human Services stated that every six hours, a child dies because of some form of abuse from a parent. It is very sad to say that about one-hundred and twenty