Child Abuse

Authors Note: This paragraph will tell you how abused children all around the world can relate to what Dave went through.


    Do you love the way your living? A loving family, food to eat and, parents to take care of you. What if one day that just all disappeared. Your mother is mean to you, hits you all the time and, barley gives you food to eat. Well that’s what happened to Dave in The Child Called It. This story also reminds me of child abuse that is still going around.
  Child abuse is still going all around the world, parents beating kids and starving the children. Dave had to put up through a lot of abuse by his mom through his life. Before,he had a loving family that took care of him and his father was making a lot of money. But, that just all went away one day and his life was miserable after that.
  Lot of children can relate to the situation Dave was in.The pain and cruelty he went through and when I was reading the disgusted and painful situations Dave went through. I was so surprised that 22% of young abused children all around the world have to get treated like that.
   When Dave was abused for many years I think he got lucky when the teachers in his school and the police found out that he was being abused and were getting worried about him so they took him to court. Then he got to choose  to stay with the foster family. Lot of kids can to relate to this situation because about 144,000 physical abused children are placed in a foster care home each year.
   While  I was reading this book it gave me a better understanding of what child abuse is really like and what the children have to go through every single day. Being treated like this is not right for anybody. This book gives a good understanding what child abuse is really like and why child abuse and all the torture happening all over the world should stop and how nobody deserves to be treated like that.