BIOL 1000 Study Guide - Language Disorder, Prosocial Behavior, American Psychological Association
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Physical child abuse and its socio-economic impact on children and canadian society 1. Today canadian society has many social problems that require attention. Unfortunately, child physical abuse is one of those that must be addressed before further harm inflicted upon children. Child physical abuse is defined as the deliberate application of force to any part of a child"s body, which results or may result in a non-accidental injury (canadian children"s rights council , This number is in reality only a small percentage of the actual physical child abuse since many cases goes unreported and happened behind closed doors. Most child physical abuse is associated with physical punishment or is confused with child discipline that needs to be addressed and the border between these two needs to be clearly defined. Most parents who administer physical force to their children do not intend to harm them.
