by Victoria Rose Perkins

Created on: November 04, 2007

When a child is abused it taints their whole inner world, derails trust and crushes their ego. Their outlook on life, after the abuse has occurred, will never be the same. Prolonged verbal abuse, physical or sexual abuse destroys the very core of who that young person was meant to be. Early intervention is key, if society wants to stay protected from the aftermath.

When abused chilren grown up, they will act their pain out on society or act it inwards, still causing a price for society to pay by way of addiction clinics, homelessness and needing help to overcome all sorts of social ills.

Child abuse forces a child to come to a fork in the road and make a choice without the benefit of maturity to guide them. They will "act it out" by becoming a bully in school, failing grades and grow to lack compassion because they were shown none.

Their hearts will be hardened in a way that more often than not they will eventually affect society in criminal ways. Or, at worse, continue the abuse. All of this is detrimental on society.

Statistics have shown that in the hard-core prison population, the majority of inmates were abused as children. That is why when a pedophile is placed in prison, he is usually kept isolated from the rest of the inmates.

Because they are the worst societal offenders and the "abused" never forget how it destroyed their lives, the child abuser will need to be given protection while in prison. Child abusers commit the biggest crime of all, murder of the soul, and the ramifications that stem from it are endless to all in society.

The other side of abuse is the child will "act it in", meaning the abuse will cause that person to have persistent doubts of who he is or whom he might have become, chronic self-esteem issues and unconsciously set himself up for failure in relationships, believing he deserves no better and that its "all my fault".

These will self-inflict emotional and/or physical pain on themselves, affecting society in many negative ways. End of the story? Children must be protected or, sooner or later, we will all pay the price directly or indirectly in our society for allowing abuse to continue.

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