Long-Term Effects of Physical Child Abuse Developmental Psychology Cheryl Karalus There’s a child that lives, tucked away somewhere, in every adult. Our inner child is what often rules our feelings, emotions, response to feelings and emotions, and many of our behaviors. Most of us believe that we hide this child from the world. For example: we get our test results back and it’s an A, we want to jump up and down with …showed first 75 words of 1864 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1864 total…our society but we close our eyes to its causes. We complain about how disrespectful children are today but, never stop to think that maybe it’s because our children are not respected. We listen to the child upstairs scream while they’re getting beaten, and don’t pick up the phone. If we as a society don’t start working to end the war against our children the “cycle of abuse” will only grow.