NF Blog Post

        In this article Long-term Study Complicates Understanding of Child Abuse the author wants you to know the causes of child abuse and how some are wildly misconstrued. He wants you to realize that a lot of people even officials look for the wrong things to profile a child abuser.
         The way he gets you to think what he wants you to is he gives you a common thought. The thought that people who were abused as kid are more apt to abuse their kids. He then goes into statistics on a study of midwestern families and he gives statistics that further back up the fact that is is believed that people that were abused are more likely to abuse their kids. Finally however he brings up the fact that over all it is almost exactly 50-50 people who were abused and were not.
          In my opinion it is not surprising that people who were abused are not the most common abusers. I think they may have been so sad as a kid that they would never want to put their own child through that because they can understand how it feels to be abused in that way. However they may feel that they are carrying on a tradition or if the got abused why shouldn't their kids. I also think the fact that they are doing studies about this is great because it can rase awareness about this issue.