What Defines Child Abuse?

There are certain parameters that are required to be followed to describe an act as an act of child abuse and it can vary from country to country. But there are some parameters that are universal to the fact and can be described to define the act.

The psychological or physical maltreatment of a child by an adult can be called as an act of child abuse. The adult can be anybody; he could be one of the parents or any other guardian or adult. The term puts emphasis on some wrong acts; you can also add the act of negligence towards that child as an act of child abuse.

But these days the sexual abuse of a child is the only thing that is popular description for the term child abuse.

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