child abuse

Child Abuse - The physical or emotional abuse of a child by a parent, guardian, or other person Child abuse makes for one of the most controversial subject matters in the United States today. Being that there are so many different forms of child abuse, many people seems to draw their own conclusions from what reports they hear through the media. Reports of child abuse, those including sexual abuse, beating, and murder, have climbed in …showed first 75 words of 3302 total…

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