Why in the Year 2005 Do We Still Have Child Abuse?

In the year 2002, 2.6 million children were abused and an estimated 1400 were killed from neglect or abuse (Ianelli). Doctor Jim Hopper says, "Child abuse can lead to a world of disaster" (Hopper). Child abuse has reduced some, but not nearly to what it should be. The five major reasons that child abuse goes noticed is: parents losing control when using alcohol or other drugs; they are unaware how to discipline their children; they lose their temper over personal issues, financial problems, or they were abused as a child.
Alcohol leads to child abuse because it impairs a person's judgment, so a parent really does not know what they may be doing. When a person is drunk they do not think about consequences and they do whatever they want to do at that very moment in time.
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