Understanding_Abuse

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1 Understanding Abuse Kimiko K. Whitmore Department of Home and Family, Brigham Young University - Idaho FAML 460: Child and Family Advocacy Kaylee Draper February 3, 2024

2 Understanding Abuse The social issue that I chose to do more research on was abuse. There are different kinds of abuse like, physical, sexual, emotional, and neglect and all of them can have negative effects on the child, the family, and society. “Child abuse and neglect appear to influence the course of development by altering many elements of biological, cognitive, psychosocial, and behavioral development…” (National Library of Medicine, 2014). These forms of abuse can also affect the family. “Abuse can cause generational effects as well as immediate ripples within a family. Additional impacts of abuse on the family include: anger toward other family members for not preventing harm, fear of the abuser, anxiety or worry about the victim of abuse, etc…” (Mass General Brigham McLean, 2023). Abuse not only affects the child and the family, it also has societal effects as well. “Some of the costs include medical care for injuries and ongoing mental health treatment. Child abuse also increases government costs for child protective services and the foster care system” (Mass General Brigham McLean, 2023). Microsystem Factors The microsystem is the immediate interactions that happen in one's life. For abuse in the microsystem, some factors that are contributing are “ the bidirectional influence of parent and child characteristics and other relationships (such as marriage) that may impact parent-child interactions directly or indirectly” (National Library of Medicine, 2014). With this having a bidirectional influence, the abuse that a child receives from parents will affect them when they are young and when they grow up. The way they are treated when they are young has an impact on their development and can contribute to the way they treat their future relationships and families. Exosystem Factors

3 The exosystem is the social and cultural factors that involve the effects of broader societal systems. Two factors that are contributing to this social issue would be the parents' employment and the neighborhood where the family lives. A lot of jobs are different and involve different schedules and time and effort that goes into them, but most jobs are pretty time consuming and can take the parents attention away from the child resulting in forms of neglect. The child may feel as though the parents care more about their jobs than they do about them because they are putting more time into their work. The neighborhood in which a family lives is another factor that can affect the child's exosystem. If the family lives in a “bad” neighborhood, there is a higher chance that the child will be negatively affected by the people in that neighborhood and the neighborhood in general. Macrosystem Factors The macrosystem is more of the social attitudes that are viewed. Two factors that contribute to abuse in the macrosystem would be views towards violence and the value of children. Views towards violence would affect a child if they are born into a family that views violence as something that is fine or if they live in a place that accepts forms of violence that wouldn’t be accepted elsewhere. The value of children would affect a child if they are born into a family that has little respect for children because they would treat them more poorly than others who place a higher value on children. Chronosystem Factors The chronosystem focuses on the role that time has in shaping someone's development. Two factors that I would say contribute to this social issue would be political views and social movements. Political views contribute to this issue because different political parties have different views on things and place higher values on other things than their children. Some

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