Putting a Stop to Child Abuse
...roundings. According to Douglas J. Besharov, a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute for public policy research and former director of the U.S. National Center of Child House and Neglect, "Nine out of ten times of abuse the child is confused and does not know why it is happening."The small child is out of answers to the five most common questions that follow: Why is this happening? What did i do? Where is this all coming from? Why was i put on this earth? and Do i deserve this cruel and harsh punishment? Why should a child even have to question himself like this? There is absolutely no sense in it. George H. Gellert, a physician specializing in epidemiology, public health, and child abuse states, "every thirteen seconds an american child is reported as abused or neglected." "Each day almost 2,00...