Children may believe that others know what has happened and that they themselves are somehow to blame. The biblical perspective God's nature Child abuse presents a terrifying picture. Without the perspective of a loving heavenly father, it could easily lead to hopeless despair. That in itself places an incredible value on each human life. In contrast to our Father God's abundant love, we see in child abuse the destructive work of Satan in a fallen world.
Child abuse denies the worth of the child.
Rather than being a person created in God's image and loved by him, the child is made an object to be beaten, shouted at and used for the gratification of another. Where God has a particular concern for the weak and vulnerable, Satan specifically targets them as objects of his malice. Not only is it children in general who are abused, we find that child abuse is more common amongst handicapped children who are even more vulnerable. In a distortion of all logic and mercy, those children who have been abused are more likely to go on to abuse their own children. Child abuse totally distorts the meaning of parenthood.