No grandparent likes to imagine a grandchild being mistreated. But the reality is that children who live in a turbulent home -- where chronic problems like family violence or substance abuse take place -- are at high risk for abuse and neglect. As you adjust to the demands of caring for your grandchildren, you might also have to help your grandchildren cope with the aftermath of abuse or neglect.
What Is Child Abuse?
Child abuse is any intentional action that causes physical, emotional or mental damage to a child. Abuse is most often caused by an adult who is more powerful than the child.
Every 21 minutes, a child is abused. Abuse and neglect can happen anywhere, to children of all races and incomes. It may be happening just down the street, next door, or across the hall from where you live. Children who are abused can have permanent physical or emotional scars. In the most severe cases, abuse can cause death.
For more information regarding types of abuse, signs and symptoms, reporting abuse and the after effects follow this link:
http://www.fcs.uga.edu/ext/pubs/chfd/CHFD-E-59-05.pdf
From: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension
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