They may not attach to the child or provide nurturance. Adults who have had few of their emotional needs met as children are often incapible of responding to the needs of their children. Terrorizing - is when parents single out one child to criticize, punish or ridicule. In extreme cases the child may be threatened with death, mutilation or abandonment. Some times isolated children are required to stay in their rooms from the time school lets out until the next morning, or restrict eating to isolation or seclusion.
Sexual abuse is any misuse of a child for sexual pleasure or gratification.
It interferes with a child's normal emotional develipment. Sexually abused children experience severe emotional disturbances from their own feelings of guilt and shame, as well as the feelings which society imposes on them. It is usually the hardest type of abuse to talk about. Sexual abuse can happen between adults and children and also between children and children when one child is a more powerful position than another. Sexual abuse includes touching and nontouching offenses.