Long-term consequences for victims of child abuse (3 min)

"People often wonder what the long-term consequences of child abuse are. Now if we're talking about, for example, physical abuse, the child may have sustained broken bones which may heal with no problems at all, or depending on the type of fracture and where it is, if it involves an extremity, it might actually cause difficulties with length discrepancy, as well as maybe a deformity, or for instance, if a child has traumatic brain injury, where the brain itself is actually injured. That can have long-term consequences regarding their cognitive ability, attention, even their social/emotional status. Also there is this issue of the whole neurobiology of trauma...."

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