12/01/03 Child abuse and my answer for it Imagine being a young child. Picture that someone is mistreating you, and you are completely unable to retaliate in any way. Imagine what would be running through your mind, all of the fear and hatred that you can do nothing with except hold it all inside. The United States government defines child abuse specifically as "any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent …showed first 75 words of 1972 total…

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