Evola 1 “Thousands of professors at hundreds of universities teach all manner of subjects, but there is not one single university chair for research into child abuse and cruelty to children. How strange, when we recall that the majority of the people living on this earth are victims of precisely that kind of treatment” (Grapes 48). Not only has child abuse become a continually growing problem over the years, but it has also become a subject that …showed first 75 words of 3475 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3475 total…find the courage to speak truthfully about their experience. One of the primary sources of their courage is our willingness to listen. This is the most important contribution we can make to the safety needed to deal with the excruciating reality of their lives (Ito 43). Child abuse is a horrible thing and it must be stopped because it not only damages a child physically, psychologically, and socially, but it also affects society as a whole.