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In Today's American society, we fail to address several issues needing to be solved. Unfortunately, child abuse is one of the major issues our country is plagued with, yet we neglect to bring this to the attention of the entirety of our nation. It is often over looked due to the fact of everyone having a different view of what exactly defines child abuse. To set the record straight there are four basic forms of …

…All though there may be no physical signs of harm, there is typically intense shame and secrecy maintained. Even adults, who know of the abuse, fear destroying a family (Hopper). Due to these two statements, we need some surefire solutions for this ever-growing problem. The possible solutions are often a 1-800 number, or teaching loyalty to their students, a period of time behind bars for offenders, and educating grades first through fifth on the problem.