The
history of childhood is not the brightest and purest page in the history of mankind. The more person
immerses into this case, the more horrible picture he finds. During centuries children have been
killed, beaten, sexually abused, rejected and terrorized by adults. Modern psychological theories
insist on the fact that child abuse holds together families, as it’s a kind of solving emotional
problems. A number of theories continue these ones and say that child abuse stimulates solving
collective emotional problems of the whole society.
The first data that we can relate to child abuse are connected with ancient child sacrifice. At Carthage there was found a cemetery where were buried more then 20,000 children, this event dates back to 400-200 BC. Parents used to vow to kill their next child if gods would be gracious to them. Sometimes the parents had to kill their first child if the promised child wasn’t born alive. Such kind of sacrifice was a happy ritual with singing and dancing sometimes accompanied by the ritual rape of virgin girls. A similar ritual exists even nowadays in the Andean Mountains. Such kinds of rituals resemble satanic rituals where sexual abuse, rape and genital mutilation of children take place. Continue reading “Essay: History and Effects of Child Abuse”