This leads to problems in the victims relationships because they relate their relationships to the experiences they’ve undergone with their abuser. Victims sometimes require therapy to cope with their problems. Sexual abuse places people in the position to develop mental illness especially if they know their abuser. Anxiety, depression, and personality
When looking at the parent or talking to them they seem to be apathetic to very depressed. They feel as if the only way to feeling anything is to make the child feel just as miserable as they are. In a lot of parents there seems to be a lot of drugs and alcohol use. They also behave in a bizarre manner. As in sudden out bursts or even lashing out on a child in public.
Child abuse has created massive sufferance of children and can cause negative outcomes through emotional instability in the mind and heart, painfulness of physical wounds, and can cause traumatic distress in the future. Although each parent and child may have their own problems, it is not fair if we let child abuse to happen because it can create senseless and complicated issues. Child abuse has created invisible pain to children’s emotions. According to the National Child Abuse Statistics in 2006, “80% of children getting abused can easily develop psychiatric disorders at the age of 21 such as depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.” The outcomes of a child being abused can create profound sadness, attempts of suicide, and can affect on his/her social life with others. “In Los Angeles 2003, Richard Jr. suffered abuse during high school at Don Boscov Technical Institute and resulted in depression and suicidal.” (Quinn) As a result, child abuse can bring down children’s self-esteem low and emotional instability in the mind and heart.
Because sexual abuse is such a disturbing incident, false accusations of sexual abuse have huge, if not shocking, consequences for families. There is a bit of controversy about false memory syndrome, on one side by those who believe that the memories are not true, and on the other side by those who say that people who have committed the sexual abuse acts are using false memory syndrome to question allegations against them. The effects of memories such as these rising to the surface, whether they are actual memories or not, is often devastating to formerly functional families. The article in question has taken on the view from the False Memory Society in which the accused has stated that the accusations are false. The article revolves around one daughter who is split on whether to believe her sister’s letter about her father sexual assaulting her when she was 2 or to believe that her father is innocent.
Research Paper: Effect of Sexual Abuse on Adult Relationships Samantha Caruso Regent University Abstract: In this paper I will be discussing the effects of childhood sexual abuse on adult relationships. I will first address the effects in childhood and end with adulthood. This is to help the reader see the correlations between the stages, as well as what theorists have to say about these stages. The material discussed has been tested a multitude of times and has shown that there is a significant correlation between childhood sexual abuse and social/sexual problems in adult relation. Introduction: According to many studies it has been found that, “women who had experienced CSA(Childhood Sexual Abuse) involving sexual penetration or attempted sexual penetration were: (a) likely to be sexually victimized in adulthood; (b) more likely to have engaged in casual sex, unprotected sex, involuntary sexual abstinence; (c) reported fewer sexual rewards, more sexual costs, and lower sexual self-esteem.” (Lemieux & Byer, 2008, p.126) Also research shows, “CSA is associated with a variety of short and long-term negative consequences including depression, and anxiety, anger, poor self-esteem, substance abuse, eating disorders, and sexual re-victimization.” (Beitchman et al., 1992; Newman, Houskamp, Pollock, & Brier, 1996) All of which affect relationships within the individuals life.
Effects of Dependent Personality Disorder on Interpersonal Relationships and Society Abstract Aside from the anxiety that a person with Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD) suffers from on a daily basis, there are also interpersonal problems that follow the disorder. Since there is a constant need for approval and reassurance, it can lead family and friends to become frustrated and possibly reject the person suffering from DPD. Unfortunately, interpersonal relationships cannot thrive with continuous mind changing, and requests for advice. Recent studies have shown that DPD is linked to a significantly increased risk for partner and child abuse, suicide, and physical illness along with high levels of functional impairment. Children of DPD sufferers have an increase chance of feeling emotionally abandoned and unloved.
When is a Marriage Harmful to Children? The fact that divorce is harmful to children is undisputed throughout society however is divorce really a negative choice? Can it be a positive one for both the parents and the children? Society has the notion, and various research has proven, that children who are raised in a divorced family environment are more likely to struggle when building relationships of their own and are more likely to get divorced themselves. These children are more prone to have battles with depression during their adolescent years and continue these struggles into adulthood.
The psychological affect on family members of the drug user is tremendous. When a child is using drugs, parents begin to feel increased levels of anger, guilt, shame and stress which they blame on the child. While when a spouse is the user, their significant other begins to feel an overwhelming sense of obligation and responsibility. As a child or young adult with a drug abusing parent, feelings of responsibility arise as the child begins to assume the parent role and a sense of abandonment sets in. Overall, the general feelings of family members and loved ones tend to feel a mix of anger, sadness, anxiety, shame, loss, and social obligation.
These effects can be long-lasting and extremely damaging. Divorce often results in many changes in children's living situations such as changing schools, child care, homes, etc. Children of divorced parents are more likely to use drugs and alcohol this is probably a misguided attempt to cope with the stress that often accompanies divorce and end up not having a good performance at school. There is an equivalents found between children of divorce and social skills. They have more difficulties trusting other people unconditionally and tend to have less social contacts.
As a result, the problem of spousal infidelity arises which is one of the major causes of divorce all around world. Divorce may not be the only consequence of infidelity. It constantly affects the mentality of a suspicious spouse which leaves the spouse in a permanent state of mistrust and uncertainness. Sweeney and Horwitz deeply explain the psychological consequences of infidelity which include the emotions of outrage, betrayal, resentment, anger, shame and anxiety (296-297). So the current institution of marriage fails to cope with all sort of problems related to sexual frustration.