Sudipa Sarkar
Child abuse is characterized by the physical or psychological ill-treatment of a child by an adult. It is often termed as child maltreatment or child abuse and neglect. The child abuse may include various forms such as humiliation, conveying shameful feelings, or making the child frightened. The child sexual abuse is defined as an act of sexual assault of a child or sexual activity between a child and an adult only with the intention to pressurize or exploit the child in question. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act describes child abuse and neglect as: “at a minimum, any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.” According to psycho-historical study of childhood and society the history of humanity is instituted upon child abuse. Infanticide has been a regular practice of ancient times and persists till in the present among some countries quite prevalently. In prehistoric and historic times infants were sacrificed for religious and spiritual purposes in support of conducting various inhuman rituals such as throwing into rivers, flinging onto manure heaps, exposing on hills and roadsides. There is a significant pervasiveness of child abuse considering the gender. The girls, of course, have a greater prevalence of being murdered and abandoned than that of boys. In 1741, the first orphan hospital was established by Thomas Coram just to avoid the unbearable pain of roadside children which is still quite a common issue in even most of the developed countries around the world.
Child abuse is characterized by the physical or psychological ill-treatment of a child by an adult. It is often termed as child maltreatment or child abuse and neglect. The child abuse may include various forms such as humiliation, conveying shameful feelings, or making the child frightened. The child sexual abuse is defined as an act of sexual assault of a child or sexual activity between a child and an adult only with the intention to pressurize or exploit the child in question. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act describes child abuse and neglect as: “at a minimum, any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.” According to psycho-historical study of childhood and society the history of humanity is instituted upon child abuse. Infanticide has been a regular practice of ancient times and persists till in the present among some countries quite prevalently. In prehistoric and historic times infants were sacrificed for religious and spiritual purposes in support of conducting various inhuman rituals such as throwing into rivers, flinging onto manure heaps, exposing on hills and roadsides. There is a significant pervasiveness of child abuse considering the gender. The girls, of course, have a greater prevalence of being murdered and abandoned than that of boys. In 1741, the first orphan hospital was established by Thomas Coram just to avoid the unbearable pain of roadside children which is still quite a common issue in even most of the developed countries around the world.
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