Impact of Abuse The impact of sexual abuse reaches all levels of a childs emotions. These emotions and the effects are listed below: Confusion: This is usually the initial reaction of the child. They will usually question, "What is going on?" and " Is this right or wrong?". For a young child these types of questions can be an emense burden on their physcological development. Once the abuse begins the victim experience a tremnedous conflict with …showed first 75 words of 498 total…

…showed last 75 words of 498 total…mother is told about the abuse she will not want tobelieve the accusations and will blame the child. Other reasonsfor why the mother may pass guilt: 1) she may feel inequipped tochallange the husbands domination in any area of life thereforeshe shes passes the husbands faults and looks at the child. 2) The mother doesn't want to lose her husband. She does not wantto give up the security provided by her husband and will blockout the abuse.