EMOTIONAL CHILD ABUSE.

Emotional Child Abuse. A child can be emotionally abused, not only with sticks and stones which may lead to broken bones and bruises. wrong words are just as potent if not more. Such children are prone to severely damaged mental health and poor social developments with a life long sycological scar as the cosequence. What constitute emotional Scar? - Constant belittling, Shaming and generally humiliating a child constitute child abuse. - Names calling and constant negative comparison damages a child's psyce. - Using negative phrases such as...No-do-gooder,worthless,bad or that a child is a mistake has a devastating psychological side effect. - Frequent yelling, threatening or bullying is the m,ost common child abuse. - The Silent Treatment: Ignoring, negleting or giving a child cold shudder is a form of emotional child abuse. - Delibrately limiting physical contact with a child...no kissing, no cooing,hugs of lack of other signs affection amount to emotional child abuse. - And finally, exposing a child to violence or abuse of others whether parents, siblings or pet amout to child abuse. PHYSICAL CHILD ABUSE; When there is physical injury or harm done to the child. This may be deliberate in an attempt to hurt the child as a form of corporal purnishement or inadvertent , using belt, sticks or stoning. Some caregiver often attribute such purnishemet to discipline. But physical purnishement that emphasises inappropriate method is nothing but gross child abuse.