Child abuse is the intentional, unexplainable .
infliction of physical, moral, and sexual pain and .
suffering on a child. Mainly by parents .
who were maltreated as children themselves caused It. Causes .
also include stress, poverty, and/or unemployment. .
There are many cases of abuse, but those such as Elisa .
Izquierdo's stand out. Child abuse consists of .
various different causes, types, and cases. .
There are many causes for child abuse, but some .
project over the rest. In some cases children are .
mistreated when parents or caretakers have maladaptive .
responses to stressful situations or feel powerless. .
Searching for relief, they may hit someone with even .
less power than them, and these are often children. .
Other times it is the result of family problems over .
which the abuser has no control. Alcohol was said to .
be involved in fourteen percent of the cases of abuse .
and in eighteen and a half percent of the cases of .
neglect. "Religion, residence in the city or country, .
region of the country, and race are all related to .
violence in a home." Approximately eighty percent of .
the child-abusers were themselves abused as children. .
A high percentage of abusing parents feel that they .
are legitimately exercising their parental right. The .
parents injure their offspring hoping that the child .
will change a manner or learn a lesson. They take the .
idea of discipline to a brutal degree. In some cases .
the parents are simply too young and/or immature to .
take good care of they"re children. There is a higher .
percentage rate of mistreatment in families with mixed .
religion marriages. Very often it is a recollection .
of small pressures that finally make a parent explode. .
It is most likely that the abuser is employed only .
part-time or is jobless. Retired men and women are .
the least likely to harm a child. Most of the abusers .
do not suffer any kind of psychiatric illness. .
Because children with disabilities create more stress, .
