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.
