What are the Causes of Child Abuse ?

This question is complex and very complicated to answer for the purpose of this web site. To even attempt it I run the fear of over simplification. Pedophiles have long been a mystery to why they abuse? We do know there is an arousal as well as a control factor. There is also an addictive quality that is taking place. The treatment is difficult, expensive and riddled with failures. There is no simple answer. I have spent years assessing and treating pedophiles with minimal success. One has to re frame, take a different view. If there is only one success out of one hundred , then many children have been saved from the emotional torment. It has emotional drained me from time to time, and I have had to take numerous sabbaticals.

Child abuse in the form of emotional and physical assault is primarily by the caretaker. They lack the inability to parent and nurture on a consistent basis. Individuals who abuse lack coping mechanisms, can frequently be selfish, have little to no understanding what child development is, and are frequently self medicating with alcohol or drugs.

Parental training, anger management, is imperative if child abuse has a chance at being slowed down. Many blame impoverished areas, with low income as well as the uneducated as the cause. Some of the most caring parents I know are rural farmers, no high school education and have excellent values. I have seen the wealthiest neglect their children, abuse their children while they climb the corporate ladder looking for status and a false sense of self. Parents who put the business first and the family second is a form of abuse.

Causes are many. Educating parents on how to be parents is crucial, being able to be introspective and look at selfish behavior as well as their substance abuse issues are imperative. The child’s needs must be placed first.

We are talking about a human being, who is being molded by his parents. Children look to us as though we do no wrong. It is an atrocity that caretakers cannot see the errors of their ways.

Knowing the causes are helpful, it is time to implement change. Donate to child abuse web sites, tell a peer about this web site and visit www.feathersforfreedom.com. Start passing on the education, the sooner the better.

How the book,Above His Shoulders will help:

In the writing of this book I bring the reader along my journey in graduate school. I was focused and passionate on learning everything I could about perpetrators. I had to know why? I do give the reader some of the underpinnings of a perpetrators personality, and explain the process of “grooming.” We must understand, if only a little, to help make sense of the trauma.

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