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.
