Child Abuse

Child Abuse is an umberella term used to describe any act that willingly harms a child or harm caused due to neglect - child abuse is often considered one of the most shameful crimes as it targets extremely vulnerable individuals and invokes anger in most cultures where children as seen as innocent (on a biological level harming children is counter-productive to our instinct to protect our young, thus causes us to instinctually resist it).

Most philosophies, religions and societies have condemned child abuse and placed measures to prevent it.