Side effects of Child Abuse

Side effects

The consequences of child abuse and neglect can be devastating and far-reaching. Physical injuries can range from bruises, scrapes, and burns to brain damage, permanent disabilities, and death. The psychological effects of abuse and neglect can last a lifetime and may include a lowered sense of self-worth, an inability to relate with peers, reduced attention span, and learning disorders. In severe cases, abuse may result in psychiatric disorders like depression, excessive anxiety, or dissociative identity disorder, as well as an increased risk of suicide. Most of these quandaries a times results into traumas, some will lose their sense of proper reasoning. Among other negative effects of child labour that stand out the most are the negative impacts on education and the general development of children. All these effects tend to perpetuate themselves from generation to generation reducing economic and social mobility. If children acquire fewer years of education and smaller labour market earnings in the future, being a child labourer might generate an inter-generational poverty trap since the possibility is high that their daughters and sons follow the same pattern. Some of them involves in some petty trades and other urban services such as cleaning, sales representatives and other manual labour jobs to make up their lives.