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Forms of Abuse of Children

Physical/Sexual Abuse

  • Pinching
  • Hitting
  • Kicking
  • Pushing
  • Twisting arms
  • Choking
  • Committing incest
  • Sexual touching/kissing
  • Sexualizing children's behavior
Emotional/Psychological Abuse
  • Intimidation
    • Instilling fear through looks, actions, gestures, property destruction
    • Being violent to other parent, pets, etc.
  • Using Institutions
    • Threatening punishment with/by God, courts, police, school, juvenile detention, foster homes, relatives, psychiatric wards
  • Isolation
    • Controlling access to peers/adults, siblings, other parent, grandparents
  • Verbal attacks/manipulations
    • Put downs, name calling, using children as confidants, using children to get or give information to other parent, being inconsistent, shaming children, yelling at children
  • Threats
    • Threatening abandonment, suicide, physical harm, confinement, or harm to other loved ones
  • Using Adult Privilege
    • Treating children as servants, punishing, bossing, always winning
    • Denying input in visitation and custody decisions
    • Interrupting
Economic Abuse
  • Withholding basic needs
  • Using money to control behavior
  • Squandering family money
  • Withholding child support
  • Using children as an economic bargaining chip in divorce

 

 


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