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Child abuse is where any parent or guardian is physically (hitting) there child for no reason, this is not a beating for a child's wrong doing but for a personal gain or just because they were brought up being hitting and that's the way they do things.

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means beaten;hit on;punched;kicked. not just that that is just physical abuse.

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Child abuse in the long run has many bad emotional effects. Such effects as homosexuality, problems in relationships and problems dealing with relatively normal issues.

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