Child Abuse

• What is the law definition of child abuse?
• Does child abuse technically mean physical abuse?
• How many cases are there in Colorado or the United States, where parents tell judges that it is not child abuse, it is discipline?
• Does child abuse and discipline get confused with each other?
• What are the symptoms of child abuse?

Thought:
As a child who was discipline by getting spanked, growing up and seeing how different other kids were treated by their parents, made me confused. Thoughts in my head was that it was child abuse because of the feeling of being scared of my parents to act out. In another thought I thought it was just how life was just because it was within my culture. So understanding culture discipline was easy but child abuse was hard. I was never spanked to the point where I was bloody and could not walk but in the end I learned my lesson and understood the consequences. What I did not understand as a child was when or how child abuse would occur. How do I know if I am being abused? Does it get to a point when kids who are abused are used to it? Does it make children stronger as a person or forever terrified?

Research:
Defining child abuse
http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED186107

Child abuse: Opposing viewpoints
http://skyline.ucdenver.edu/record=b1984622~S0

Long-term effects of home visitation on maternal life course and child abuse and neglect
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/migrated/child/PublicDocuments/visit_3.authcheckdam.pdf

Review of] Violence against Children: Physical Child Abuse in the United States
http://aurarialibrary.worldcat.org/title/review-of-violence-against-children-physical-child-abuse-in-the-united-states/oclc/4896272933?referer=brief_results

Helping the battered child
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/abstractdb/AbstractDBDetails.aspx?id=15301

MALTREATED CHILD - THE MALTREATMENT SYNDROME IN CHILDREN - A MEDICAL, LEGAL AND SOCIAL GUIDE, 4TH ED.
https://www.ncjrs.gov/app/abstractdb/AbstractDBDetails.aspx?id=57194

Unequal and Inadequate Protection under the Law: State Child Abuse Statutes; Freiman, Marjorie R
http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=&handle=hein.journals/gwlr50&div=19&id=&page=

VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN - PHYSICAL CHILD ABUSE IN THE UNITED STATES

https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=51367

Child abuse law and policy across boundaries
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1014844


There are so many sources about child sexual abuse except just child abuse of specifically beating. That could maybe a effect of the recent reports through the recent years. But there are a lot of different kinds of abuse out there.