Every child has a right to a safe childhood and a life free from violence. In the story called A Child Called It, David Pelzer was brutally beaten starved by his heartless, alcoholic, and unstable mother. Abused children not only experience the effects of the abuse in childhood, but it also becomes a lifelong battle in adulthood. Being abused causes problems with physical health, mental health and how people interact with others.
Physical abuse is an injury intentionally caused upon a child by any person. Many times, physical abuse results from inappropriate or unnecessary physical punishment. A parent in anger may be unaware of the amount of force with which he or she attacks the child. In David's situation he was being punished with unnecessary physical discipline. He was full of scars and bruises, his punishments were too harsh. It was to the point where he was once stabbed on his stomach and had a dirty diaper rubbed on his face and was force to eat it. Due to the fact that his mother was so much stronger and bigger, he could've been severely injured or killed.
David Pelzer experienced more physical damage than anyone else in his so called "family ". Despair from the physical abuse he was also abused mentally. David received no love from his mother; she showed nothing but hate towards him. Emotional abuse hurts and damages children more. It causes them to be traumatized for years maybe for life. They take their brutal experience and assume that's how life is no matter where they go. Children like David who are or have been abused don't know what it's like to neither feel love nor know what love really is.
The abuse seems to lead a child to one extreme or the other. Either they become extremely tough and end up bullying other children, or else they are easily taken advantage of by others around them. Children like David are tough against the concern of others to the point where they are unable of having serious personal relationships.