causes of child abuse

There are several factors which lead to cases of child abuse. Do not understand parents responsibility, mental illness, financial problem or unemployment, drug use and many more.

Lack of parenting skills. Some caregivers never learned the skills necessary for good parenting. Teen parents, for example, might have unrealistic expectations about how much care babies and small children need. Or parents who where themselves victims of child abuse may only know how to raise their children the way they were raised. In such cases, parenting classes, therapy, and caregiver support groups are great resources for learning better parenting skills.

UNEMPLOYMENT and FINANCIAL PROBLEMS. The 1975 National Family Violence Survey found rates of child abuse that were considerably higher among families suffering from unemployment than among those in which the husband was working full time. Families in which the husband was not working had a significantly higher rate of child abuse than other families This finding did not recur, however, in the 1985 survey, although wives of unemployed husbands did have a higher rate of abuse than wives of husbands working full time. Strauss said that this higher rate for wives might have been caused by added family stress because the father was unemployed. For more examples, when returning from heavy work, poor work environment and less salary, feeling and emotions may be unstable. Consequently, parents especially the father cannot control his anger and end with furious temper and harassment. Alcohol and drug abuse. Living with an alcoholic or addict is very difficult for children and can easily lead to abuse and neglect. Parents who are drunk or high are unable to care for their children, make good parenting decisions, and control often-dangerous impulses. Substance abuse also commonly leads to physical abuse.

Untreated mental illness. Parents who suffering from depression, an anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, or another mental illness have trouble taking care of themselves, much less their children. A mentally ill or traumatized parent may be distant and withdrawn from his or her children, or quick to be angry without understanding why.

Less aware from community.
Some people do not want to know what happen to their neighbourhoods. They just do their own work without being concerned about what happen to other families. Consequently , when the child is hit by their parents and crying, they just think that is a normal situation without expect something negative.

Others factors :

There are other factors which might lead to child abuse.

Domestic violence
When domestic violence is present, one parent may not be able to protect the child from another parent's abusive behavior because that parent is also being abused. Children may be harmed while trying to protect a parent from domestic violence or as a result of the violence.

Single parents.

The NI'S-3 study found that children of single parents were at higher risk of physical abuse of all types of neglect and were overrepresented among seriously injured, moderately injured, and endangered children. Typically, a single parent family has less income than a two-parent household and the single parent is trying to do the job of two parents. Thus, in the worst cases, their lack of adequate social and economic support may make the conditions ripe for abuse.

Low self-confidence.
Parents with low self-esteem are more susceptible to abusing their children because they often see themselves as worthless and may take out their feelings of inadequacy on their children.