My focus, thesis, and Plan of Development!

Focus: The effects child abuse has on its victims, and future consequences.

Thesis: Children cannot make sense of it when they are first introduced to abuse. Children can develop a range of issues which can have consequences for their adult lives when subjected to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.

Plan of Development: 
1. One-third of abused and neglected children will later abuse their own children.
2. Abuse victims end up having difficulties during adolescence.
3. In one long term study, as many as 80% of young adults who had been abused met the diagnostic criteria for at least 1 psychiatric disorder at age 21.
4. Shaking a baby is a very common form of child abuse.
5. Child maltreatment during infancy/early childhood has been shown to negatively affect child development.