Child+Abuse.+Tolerating+the+Intolerable

**__Child Abuse:__**

 * 84 percent of those that are inmates were abused as children**.**
 * One in three girls and one in five boys are sexually abused by an adult at some time during childhood. (Most sexual abusers are someone in the family or someone the child knows, not the proverbial stranger with a lollipop.)
 * Families with four or more children have higher rates of abuse and neglect, especially if their living conditions are crowded or they live in isolated areas.
 * More than 80 percent of abusers are a parent or someone close to a child. Child abuse is far more likely to occur in the child's home than in a day care center.
 * One in thirteen kids with a parent on drugs is physically abused regularly. (Drug and __alcohol abuse__ in the family makes child abuse about twice as likely.)
 * One out of ten babies born today are born to mothers who are abusing drugs. Drinking and smoking heavily during pregnancy also endangers the health of unborn children. (Facts About Child Abuse)

(Dan)

__Child Abuse Tolerance:__
Most children do not know that they are getting abused because of their young age and as they grow up they soon build a tolerance to where they do not care anymore that they get beat or that they are sexually abused, knowing and taking the __idea__ that being abused is okay. Statistics also show that kids who are abused as children will __abuse alcohol__ and drugs. :( (Widmon, Kathy, etc.) Statistics also show that kids that were abused will become abusers as well from the fact that they have built a tolerance of this and seen this as a way to raise their children.

__Child Abuse In Italy__:
Courts have been asked that the love that mothers give to there children in Italy might be too much or actually considered as child abuse. That the boys (because in Italy girls are much less susceptible) who are so use to being with there mother that in there 30's - some even in there 40's - still depend on there mothers to clean there clothes and even cook for them. Their was a case where it centered around a over protective mother and grandparents of a 12 year old boy known as Luca. Prosecutors proclaim the 3 built a wall of protection that stunted the growth of Luca. Investigators say that teachers have said that Luca had the motor skill's of a 3-year old and that he didnt even know how to run. (Israely)

(Princessdlaf)

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__**Citations**__
"Facts About Child Abuse". Baltimore County Maryland, 2012. //Baltimore County Maryland.// Web. 28 Mar. 2012. <[]>

Israely, Jeff. "In Italy, a Mamma Accused of Doting Too Much". Time World, 2009.Time World. Web. 28 Mar. 2012. <[]>

Widmon, Kathy. Hiller-Sturmhofel, Susanne. "Alcohol Abuse as a Risk Factor for and Consequence of Child Abuse". Alcohol Research and Health, 2001. Vol. 25. Alcohol Research and Health. Web. 28 Mar. 2012. 

Dan. "Child Abuse//".//2011. //Danster//. Web. 28 Mar. 2012. 

Princessdlaf. "Child Abuse". Photograph.//iStockphoto.// iStockphoto.14 Sept. 2009. Web. 28 Mar. 2012. 