Child Abuse

Hannah Arendt's concept of authority, as well as Robert Paul Wolff's concept of violence, can incorporate child abuse and why it may occur. Child abuse also called child maltreatment, is intentional acts that result in physical or emotional harm to children. It covers a wide range of behaviour from actual physical assault by parents or other adult caretakers to attacking a child's emotional development and self-worth. Neglect is another area of child abuse, one in which will be further examined.
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