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A site designed for kids who want information on emotional abuse and bullying and how to overcome it. It includes links to other helpful sites, a forum and a chat room.
http://helpforkids.bravehost.com
Abuse in families can take many forms. This article talks about recognizing abuse, its effects, and what someone who is being abused can do about it.
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/families/family_abuse.html
Abuse - physical, emotional, or sexual - has no place in love. Read this article to find out how to recognize the signs of abuse in yourself or a friend and how you can get help.
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/relationships/abuse.html
Hitting, grabbing, and yelling can all be kinds of abuse. You can learn more about what abuse is and what to do about it in this article for kids.
http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/emotion/handle_abuse.html
Childhelp USA provides information for getting treatment for child abuse. Request information for getting treatment for child abuse and get help today.
http://www.childhelpusa.org/forkids_help.htm
we are dedicated to the protection of children from abusive adults, fun and games for the children and a way to determine what is abuse.
http://www.childrensrefuge.com/
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/childhelp/3kids.html
http://www.geocities.com/hotsprings/3885/abuse.html
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Wikipedia-Article "Abuse"
- This article is about the ethics-related issue of abuse. For the computer game, see Abuse (computer game).
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Abuse is a general term for the misuse of a person or thing, causing harm to the person or thing, to the abuser, or to someone else. Abuse can be something as simple as damaging a piece of equipment through using it the wrong way, or as serious as severe maltreatment of a person. Abuse may be direct and overt, or may be disguised and covert.
Several types of abuse include:
- Sexual abuse: The improper use of another person for sexual purposes, generally without their consent or under physical or psychological pressure. It is often inflicted on children.
- Physical abuse: Where one person inflicts physical violence or pain on another.
- Emotional or psychological abuse: coercion, humiliation, intimidation. Where one person uses emotional or psychological manipulation to compel another to do something they do not want, or is not in their best interests; or when one person manipulates another's emotional or psychological state for their own ends.
- Drug abuse: the misuse of drugs, alcohol or other substances, usually a form of addiction.
- Child abuse: Abuse, usually physical, emotional or sexual, directed at a child.
- Spousal abuse: Abuse, usually physical, or psychological abuse, directed at one's spouse.
- Elder abuse: Abuse, most often physical or in the form of psychological threats, directed at the elderly, especially in nursing homes and similar institutions.
- Human rights abuse violation of human rights.
- Verbal abuse: The use of foul language, obscenities or demeaning talk directed at another.
- Animal abuse: Abuse or cruelty directed at animals.
- Legal Abuse: The use of legal procedures to retaliate, coerce, or emotionally/financially harm a person (e.g., certain lawsuits).
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