Child Abuse

Child Abuse

As the world begins to grow more and more around us we tend to miss the little things that are going on in our own lives. Unfortunately the children we see every day are facing detrimental problems at home with either their parents or guardians that is causing mental effects along with physical abuse. As we watch the news there are always stories that parents go to jail because they have beaten their kids or even killed them. Why any adult would want to abuse an innocent child is out of this world. I have explored this heartbreaking problem over the past couple of months and never knew how much of it goes on around us.

The history of child abuse has been here since the beginning of time. In the early 1870s child abuse finally got the attention of the world because of the awful things being done to children. An 8 year old orphan named Mary Ellen Wilson was suffering daily whippings and beatings at