Divorce causes child abuse ?

Divorce has been identified as one of the main
causes of child abuse, according to the research
done by the National Institute of Women and Family
Development.

This is because when parents are caught in messy
divorce battles, the real victims are the children
who are often neglected and abused.

The parents would end up highly-stressed out,
both emotionally and financially.

And during this traumatic period of upheaval
and instability, the slightest mistake by the
child would mean either a slap, a physical beating,
shouting and yelling, or other forms of abuse.

For example, if the child turn on the music
loudly, the divorced mum would get irritated
and turn on all her anger at the child.

Then too, there are instances of the baby
crying due to hunger, and the agrieved dad
would just pick her up, and start kicking
and burning cigarettes butts on the helpless
child.

Divorce may not be the only factor in such an
extreme case of child abuse, as other factors
like not enough sleep, not enough money, depression,
fear factor, psychological lapses, etc all come
into play and interwine together.

But whatever it is, one cannot deny that divorce
is a contributing factor to the child being abuse,
and it is certainly very harsh for a divorced mum
to cope with the pre and post effects of divorce.