It is a question that one person needs to answer for himself and solve for himself. Something a young child is not capable of doing. Physical abuse has many forms. Other forms of abuse include the pouring of scalding water or coffee on a child s body, holding a child s head under the water of a toilet bowl, stuffed into running washing machines, throwing a child against a wall, shaking a child with extreme force or placing parts of a child s anatomy on hot or burning objects to cause pain. Some experts say the For every reported case of physical abuse over 100 are not reported.
Nobody knows precisely how many children die each year from physical abuse at the hands of adults.
The National committee for the Prevention of child Abuse in its annual survey of all 50 states estimates the 1,125 children died from abuse in 1988, a figure that, according to the Committee s report most likely represents the lowest estimate of the problem. Many times when physical abuse is caused by a parent or guardian, the child is not taken for medical help, even when wounds or injuries are very severe. When they are taken into the hospital it is usually be a secondary member of the family, one who may not have caused the abuse but did not stop it either. This type of person might be called a facilitator. In the past, there was much more discipline in homes and schools then there is today.