Open AccessAnalysis Of General Perspective Regarding Child Abuse
Author(s) -
Dua e Rehma,
Asma Manzoor,
Syed Faisal Hashmi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
pakistan journal of gender studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-8886
pISSN - 2072-0394
DOI - 10.46568/pjgs.v10i1.225
Subject(s) - psychology , child abuse , girl , globe , perspective (graphical) , population , perception , developmental psychology , personality , social psychology , clinical psychology , poison control , suicide prevention , medicine , medical emergency , environmental health , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science
The present study is about general concepts of people about Violence against children and mal-treatment. Child abuse and mal-treatment is a vibrating issue of recent decades around the globe. Parenting behaviors and cultural practices may also be the part of abuse regarding children depends on societies’ and cultures’ common perceptions and norms. Child mal-treatment impacts the children (either a boy or a girl) as well as the society. This study examined the reasons and causes of child abuse and its effects on child’s personality socially, physically and psychologically. The research is conducted by descriptive and quantitative methods; convenience sampling technique of non probability has been used to select the target population, and interview schedule is used as a tool to collect data. The study reveals that child abuse of any kind, either it is of minor intensity or extreme, have its impact on children depending on intensity of abusive behavior.