Emotional Maltreatment
As Tonya walks into her classroom at her new school she is very quiet, and does not trust anyone but herself. Then as a student tries to share the crayons she turns her face away and starts to cry. This is something many children face today that adults and caregivers might consider shyness or getting used to change when really the situation is so much more; it is called emotional maltreatment. Most people in our society either do not know about this or even worse could be doing this and not know about it. Today our society faces many problems, but one that is not paid enough attention to is child abuse. Every year children are either injured or even die from child abuse. For the federal fiscal year, 2004, three million children were either abused or neglected, 872 000 were victims. That is a dramatic number that could be easily decreased. There are many reasons why children are abused and why the parents do it, and there are also many forms of child abuse. And the number of abused......
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