OVERVIEW OF THE KIND OF ABUSE

     THE  OVER VIEW OF KINDS OF ABUSE:

  Overview of State Anti-Bullying Legislation and Other Related Laws, notes that, as of January2012, 48 U.S. states had anti-bullying laws. Though there is wide variation in their strength and focus. Sixteen states acknowledge that bullies often target their victims based on creed or religion, disability, gender or sex, nationality or national origin, race, and sexual orientation.  Each of those sixteen states has a certain wide array of additional notes, ranging from age and weight to socioeconomic status. Of the Thirty eight states that have laws encompassing electronic or cyber bullying activity. Thirty two states put such offenses under the broader category of bullying.

There are Three types of abuse : 

1.       Emotional:  

            Also referred to as mental abuse, it’s a form of abuse  displayed  by a person or persons subjecting or exposing another to behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, depression, or P.T.S.D, also known as ( post- traumatic stress Disorder).

            Such abuse is often associated with situations of power imbalance, such as abusive relationships, family or domestic issues, bullying, and abuse in the workplace.

2.        Verbal: 

      

           Negative defining statements or words told to the person or about the person or by withholding any response defining a victim as non-existent. If the abuser doesn't immediately apologize for his/her defining statements or words, the relationship may be a verbally abusive one.

     In schools a young person may indulge in verbal abuse or bullying to gain status as superior to the person or victim and to make friends with others who intern become abusers. Generally the bully knows no other way of making friends, i.e., using language that degrades another at the expense of someone else.  Verbal abuse is not limited, verbal abuse is found in bullying, family and or domestic relationships.

3.       Physical:  

       

             An act of another party involving contact intended to cause physical pain, or other physical bodily injuries.  In most cases, children are the victims of physical abuse, but adults can be the sufferers too. Physically abused children are at risk for future personal problems such as

aggressive behavior. The abused often becomes the abuser scenario will often come to pass and, or the adolescents are at a much greater risk for substance abuse. Often the symptoms of depression, emotional distress, and suicidal tendencies are also common features of people who have been physically abused. Not just children but adults with a history of physical abuse usually suffer from P.T.S.D also known as post traumatic stress disorder.