1. Child abuse is giving physical, emotional or sexual pains to children by their parents, teachers and others.
2. Neglecting, namely not taking care of children is also child abuse.
3. In Japan, about 381,000 child abuse cases were reported in 2006. Every year, the number is increasing more and more.
4. Why do such sad things happen? People who work to prevent child abuse think that extraordinary stress –for example, poverty, divorce, sickness or disability of a child and lack of parental skills are major causes of child abuse.
5. The tendency that people who were abused in childhood will become child abuser is found.
6. Therefore, child abuse will increase more and more, if we don’t try to stop it from now.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse
http://www.mhlw.go.jp/houdou/2007/07/h0710-3.html
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