Sibling Abuse In Asian Countries

All the types of abuse such as psychological, physical, emotional, sexual and verbal abuse by one sibling to other are included as sibling abuse. The other form of abuse which is not much common is rational abuse, which also included as sibling abuse.

The fights among siblings are very normal but when one sibling trying to control or terrorize the other siblings, then it is referred as abuse. Normally sibling abuse occurs in a family, where parents are very neglecting about their children, or children most often witnessed the abuse between their parents. These children repeat the same scene with their other siblings which they witnessed between their parents.

Identifying Sibling Abuse

Little fights, disagreements and competitions are the normal routine of siblings in their lives. Parents should observe the actions of their children to understand that is there any kind of abuse occurring among their children. They must talk to their children so they can differentiate between the abuse behavior and aggression from other siblings.  One of the may concern for parents is to know about whether there is some sexual abuse among their children or not. As sexual abuse need much attention because children are not much aware of this type of abuse due to their innocence.

There should also need to be observed that the abusive behavior of the child with other siblings is occasionally or it happens regularly. The behavior of the child is according to his/her age or he/she show so much aggression even in early stages of his/her life.

Risk Factors

There are some risk factors as well which are associated with sibling abuse. following are those factors;

•    Family System

One of the factors of sibling abuse is the family system; the system in which children have grew up. This system may include the aggressive and abusive behavior of parents towards their children, spouse abuse, the low income level of the family, low education level of the mother, dissatisfaction about the relationship between the parents and neglecting behavior of the parents about the up-bringing of their children

• Parenting Behavior

The other factor associated with sibling abuse is parenting behavior. Most of the times parents neglect the conflict between their children, sometimes they compared their children as good or bad, favor one of them, trying to resolve the parental-child conflict by using the power as they are parents, fail to supervise their children and also don’t give so much importance about to mention a discipline line among their children.

•   Individual Traits

Individual trait is another factor which is associated to sibling abuse. Individual traits referred to the differences of behavior among the siblings. The abuser who abuses his/her other siblings due to some personality issues with him/her. He/she may have low temperament and such an aggressive behavior which cause abuse. That abusive child may also not have the empathy for other siblings and he/she show his/her emotions in a physical way. Anger, depression and lack of attention from parents also cause the sibling abuse.