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• Hey, I just wrote a speech on Child Abuse for school and I just wanted to know if you guys liked it and if it is good? Please give me feedback!! Grown up’s are usually there to help and encourage kids. They take care of them, teach them how to do things and show them the right way to behave, but most of all love them. Most adults treat kids this way but some adults treat kids completely different... Every 10 seconds a child is abused, tortured, beaten, or raped! Child abuse is not always possible to clearly isolate the types of harm to children, but these are the four main areas; Physical, Sexual, Emotional Abuse and Neglect. Physical abuse is injuries that come from hitting, throwing, shaking, burning or biting a child. Sexual abuse is forced sexual contact, or sexual activity often by an adults that the child trusts. Emotional abuse is when an adult constantly blames or puts down a child. Neglect is when an adult fails to provide for the child’s physical needs, such as food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. It can also be when an adult fails to provide for the child’s emotional needs, such as affection, attention, supervision and love. What effects does a child abuse have on a child? Abuse by an adult damages the most fundamental relationship as a child that you will safely, reliably get your physical and emotional needs met by the person who is responsible for your care. It can be different for children to learn to trust people or know who is trustworthy. If a child is being abuse emotionally it can be hard for them to overcome feeling like they’re not good enough. A child who is physically abused will most likely experience immediate pain and depending on the abuse it may lead to death. Why do adults abuse children? There is no excuse for people to abuse children but children who were abused when they were young are more likely to be abusive when they grow up and have children. Some studies have shown that 30% of abused children grow up to be abusive parents. People would tend to question why a child who knows how hard it was when they were young would grow up and do this to their children. Children grow up thinking that everything their parents do is right. The problem is when these children are abused they don’t often learn that it is the wrong thing to do, and will be more likely to abuse their children. Some of the most horrendous stories of child abuse includes; a father who bit his child’s eye out and ate it, a baby tossed over a bridge, a teen was forced to eat her own feces and drink her own urine, a toddler died from being dunked into a pot of boiling water, a man raped an infant and adoptive parents force children to eat dog food and sleep in dog crates then burned the young children. I think child abuse is disgusting and should be stopped! No child should be abused by adults. All child abusers should be put behind bars for a long time. If parents are abusing theirs or other people’s children then they should not have the right to have children.

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  Good topic, and you have shown you have done a bit of research, which really good. But as its for primary school students, some of the wording, could toned down, while most primary school kids will know most of the language you have used there are just as many who wont understand what sexual abuse, rape & feces means, especially if its targeting younger primary school students. Before giving your speech ask the teacher to proof read you work, and they will be able to tell you if there words in your speech that may need to be reworded. My I suggest that you talk about some of the services or people available to children who maybe experiencing abuse CPS (child protection services), DHS (dept of human services), children's hotlines, police, teachers, trusted adult etc. So that the kids know that there are services/people out there that will help them if the need, and that they should not be afraid to speak up, about what is happening at home, friends home, school, and that they are NOT in anyway to blame for the abuse, which many abusers seem to do is make the child feel as if they were at fault. Sadly I have worked a few children who were abused, and have had to twice make a report on "suspected" abuse, one physical abuse, the other the mother was over medicating their child. It sucked but had to be done, and I felt like every kind of heel for doing it. On the other hand as a parent I have had CPS knock on my door, due to a report made to them, and it was awful, the only consultation is that I was not guilty, and it was proven as such, so I know the distress it causes for a family go through, especially when their innocent.