Sum up the info about types of family abuse and answer the questions.

· What is family abuse?

· What does physical abuse include?

· What happens in case of emotional or verbal abuse?

· What is financial and spiritual abuse?

Family abuse is when a parent or caregiver abuses, mistreats, or neglects you or other people in your family. The abuse can be physical, psychological/emotional. Neglect is another form of abuse, which is when parents do not take proper care of or pay attention to the needs of the children in a family.

Physical abuse

Physical abuse includes hitting, punching, or physically harming a child or youth in some other way. Other examples of physical abuse are: slapping, biting, kicking, pulling hair, scratching shaking, choking, arm twisting, using an object, such as a belt or bat, to causing any kind of pain.

Emotional abuse

This kind of abuse, also known as psychological abuse, is difficult to identify because it doesn't leave physical marks. Still, emotional abuse can be as painful as physical abuse. Here are some examples of emotional abuse:

Verbal abuse: name calling, insulting, and criticizing to hurt feelings, ridiculing

Humiliating in public:

· yelling at someone, pushing them around, or speaking down to them in front of others;

· telling someone they’re a bad person;

· giving someone the “silent treatment”;

· threatening to hurt someone or a person they care about (or threatening to harm a pet);

· threatening to leave a young person somewhere, or to leave the home and never return;

· abusing someone else (sibling, parent, or pet) in front of a young person;

· fighting in front of someone;

Financial abuse:

· stealing or controlling someone’s money or valuables;

· forcing someone to work;

· denying someone the right to work;

· preventing the victim from obtaining employment or an education;

· withholding money, prohibiting access to family income, or lying about financial assets and debts;

· making the victim ask or beg for money;

· forcing the victim to hand over any income;

· refusing to contribute to shared or household bills;

· neglecting to comply with child support orders;

Spiritual abuse: using someone’s religious or spiritual beliefs to manipulate, dominate, and control her.

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