physical Abuse

Physical abuse is a force against a person that causes injury or possibilities of injury. Physical abuse examples are pushing, slapping, punching and shaking someone in a way that may cause injuries.

Mostly children and women are victims of physical abuse. Sometimes physical abuse is may be personally, as a person hurt himself/herself due to severe depression.

Causes of Physical Abuse

Physical abuse may be cause due to very low parental-child interactions. Some people feel their-self very week. They think they are not able to interact with other persons. Those type of people abuse themselves physically. Family and marital conflict are one of the major causes of physical abuse.

Mostly wives are physically abused by their husbands. This is due to lack of understanding between them. The other reason is couples have high expectation from each other, but once they cannot get what they expected, they may suffer from high stress and it result physical abuse.

Children abuse may be caused due to poor understanding of parents about their children’s behavior. Lack of attention towards children may also cause family issue, as a result parents responses in physical way.

Effects of Physical Abuse

• Physical Effects of Physical Abuse

Short term physical effects of physical abuse can be treated by healthcare. These may include cuts or broken bones. Long term physical effects may last for a very long time. These effects include high blood pressure, heart diseases and sexually transmitted disease in case where sexual abuse is a part of physical abuse.

Physical abuse effects pregnant women in way that those women started to lose weight. It may result into per-term delivery, low infant birth weight or may cause miscarriage. 

• Psychological Effects of Physical Abuse

 Psychological effects of physical abuse are also very long lasting. The effective person may suffer throughout his/her life. Psychological effects may result into severe depression. The abused person may start to take drugs and started to drink alcohol. The women, who are facing physical abuse, have 16 times greater risk of drinking alcohols.

The psychological effect of physical abuse may also result into mental disorder and suicidal behavior. This also causes the eating disorder and behavior and personality disorder.