Types of Child Abuse

• Physical Abuse - physical abuse is hitting hard with a hand or an object like a belt, especially hits that leave bruises or cuts. shaking, choking, painful grabbing and kicking can also be physical abuse.

• Sexual Abuse - body has private parts. These are the parts that arcovered by your bathing suit or underwear: breasts, vagina and bottom for girl and penis and bottom for boys. If an adult or older kid touches a kids private parts or tells a kid to touch theirs, it is sexual abuse. when this happens, the abuser might tell the kid that this touching is a secret and that they cant tell anyone. But a kid does not have to keep this secret. Tell a trusted adult, or more than one, until someone takes action.

• Verbal or Emotional Abuse - This kind of abuse can happen without touching. It can be verbal abuse if someone yells all the time, calls the kid mean names, or threatens to leave the kid or have him or her adopted. All kids deserve to have adults in their lives who love and support them as they as grow up. Its common for parent get angry with their kids once in a while, but if there yelling, punishing, and threatening too much of the time, a kid can start feeling really bad about himself or herself. And just like with physical form of abuse, its a good idea to tell a trusted adult this is happening.

• Physical Neglect - Neglect happen when kids live in a home where the adults dont give them basic stuff that all kids need like food, clean clothes, and a bed to sleep in. when parents or get checkups or medicine when they need them.