Child neglect is a situation that the childs primary needs are lacked, especially by parents or caregivers of the child. Physical child abuse is an adults action which causes visible or potential harmfulness to the child.

 Emotional maltreatment is known as a behavior of child abuse that affects the psychology life or social skills of the child.  We can categorize the reasons of child abuse into 3 different ways:  parental causes, ecological causes and child problems.  Besides, child abuse also has strongly influenced all sides of the child’s life, such as:  physical effects, behavior effects and emotional effects.  It is completely surprising to know that one of the causes is from the child’s parents.  Actually, if the child’s father or mother falls into an addictive situation such drugs or alcohol, these children will not be able to receive suitable cares to grow up normally.   The child will be beaten or neglected without any regret.  Based on the report from the Department of Health and Human Services, in 2006 approximately 82.4% abused child cases were made by at least one of the child’s parents.  There was a true story about an eleven-year old boy, named Josh, who had experienced extreme neglect during his younger years by his parents.  After a year of receiving treatment at the Tennyson Center for Children in Colorado, Josh has finally rejoined normal life.  The next reason of child abuse has come from ecological causes.  Surely, a family under poverty conditions has always fought with serious problems in finance.  Therefore, children from these families cannot receive enough daily food and education for developing into a healthy child.  In addition, these children in poor-living conditions are easily becoming victims.  As the figure from NDAS states, it is amazing to recognize that in the District of Columbia, the children in families living under poverty scale had increased from 23.4% in year 2000 to 32.6% in year 2006.  Approximately 80% of families in Gaza have existed in poverty and have depended on food aid.  Last but not least, child abuse has often occurred due to child’s unexpected disabilities. Whenever a child is born with any weakness in its body, this unlucky child can be refused by connected parents.  A minimum of 15% of children in the U.S. have suffered disabilities and the disabled child had a probability of 3.5 times of being abused compared to a normal child.  Carolyn’s story is a recalled childhood of her real life.  Carolyn has a disability and has lived in over seven foster families till her teenage years.  Sometimes Carolyn felt that the foster family adopted her because of money that the foster parents receive from child welfare.  To prevent child abuse, we might consider several methods such as:  parent education, family supporting programs and child welfare. First, we can organize the optional courses for young couples to give them basic education about how to become a healthy family. Beside, we must force the single or married people with addiction to get a medical treatment for breaking their circumstance of using drugs off.In May 2006,thePrevent Child Abuse America Organization held a national convention on prevented strategies of child abuse for over 12,000 attendances. Second, we also need to deploy many social programs, such as: care-preparing or financed sponsors to support familiesliving underpoverty to increase their incomes. That means if the family’s finance becomes more stable the child will be given better care and education.In U.K, if a child isliving with eitheroneor noneof parents, this child will be applied a policy called ‘child maintenance’.So the child will receive a certain amount of money for daily act. Third, the government must pay specially attention to offering more welfare to child with a disability. With financial assistance from government, a child with disability will havemore opportunity being existent to social activities.Asyou can find at the National Deaf Children’s Society – in U.K, the child with a disability of hearing might get a lot of benefits to overcome the deafsituation,forinstance: receiving child welfare,optionaleducation, providing audiology. In summary, whenever we do not take care of our children, it is easily for child abuse to happen. Although each man has own problems, but it is not fair ifwe throw all troubles to a child. In my opinions, child abuse is a complicated and sensible issue because it has just occurred when we have lost control of ourselves. Whatever thecausesof child abuse, themost important thing isadults’ behavior. So, education is the best method for preventing child abuse. Through the training programs, adult might get a healthier life and children can have some skills of self protection. And I hope that in future children all over the world might keep away from child abuse.