Introduction Throughout this paper titled, "Child Safety and Permanency versus Parental Rights" several different types of child abuse will be defined and discussed, parental rights information, along with information on the Child Welfare System. Throughout this class we have learned about many different topics that impact families and children. Some of the major topics that we've focused on are poverty, violence and addiction, and abuse and neglect. In every chapter of the book there is information provided on the affects these topics have on children and families, history of cases that occurred and laws that were passed to help and protect children and families, and services that are provided to these children and families struggling with that particular topic within the chapter. …show more content…
According to the textbook, "The four categories most often used are physical abuse, physical neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional or psychological abuse" (Crosson-Tower, 2018 p.152). The difference between neglect and abuse is that abuse is more of physical harm to a child and neglect is more like a consistent failure to meet a child's basic needs. Common symptoms of abuse are usually bruises, burns, broken or fractured bones, and cuts. Over time children will start to become less social because they are scared of saying something wrong and being abused for it, these children tend to have anxiety, and they maybe underdeveloped as they grow older. There are several specific times of neglect such as, abandonment which is categorized as physical neglect, medical neglect, which means that the caregivers fail to take the child to the hospital for checkups or when they're sick or injured, and another type of neglect is emotional, which means there is a lack of affection and nurturing for the child, it is hard to identify, but has a lasting impact on the