Child Abuse An Analysis Of Multiple Personality On Leading Character As Portrayed In Daniel Keyes’s The Minds Of Billy Milligan

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2.3 Child Abuse

There are many kinds of abuse. They are physical abuse, mental abuse, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, etc. Child abuse and neglect occurs in a range of situations, for a range of reasons. For example are, the disharmony in the household, the low income of the family, or other supporting factors that can be trigger violence. Phillip L Rice 1987 Stress and Health, Principles and Practice for Coping and Wellness says “Abused children tend to suffer a damaged self-imaged, poorer emotional adjustment if not mental disturbance, more disturbed family relationship, lower impulse control, and interior coping skills. Parents who maltreat their children have gad a development history that predisposes them to do so. This does not mean that all abusive parents were themselves abused as children. Parental rejection also may be a key factor.” This book gives more explanation about what makes parents abuse their children and any adverse factors that can occur of abuse. Moreover, this book tells more about mental health in human, adults, teens, and children. Also informs us, that abuse against children which caused by their own parents, evidently have similar memories or events that ever happened since they were a child. Parents are the most influential in the development of children. In a family, usually parents who are teach, educate, and keep their children. The relationship between parent and children is so intimate, where children learn, act, behave, and spoken, all of it comes from their parents. Childhood is a special period of development, because it has a psychological need, education, as well as the physical condition of a typical and different from adults. 15 Dinkmeyer in his book entitled Child Development the Emerging Self 1965 says, “The family is the major environmental influence and remains throughout life the most persuasive of all influences. It is in the family that the child either learns to trust people or to be fearful and uncertain of others. The family has a most significant role to play in the development of personality. Most of early social learning is experienced within the family.” It gives explanation about the role of the family in life, and children development. This book explains more in detail about what is the responsibility of parents in raising children. Teach interact with others, to trust others, to anxiety others, and those are should be taught by parents. Parents should not be cited or doing a bad thing, because children are very easy to imitate. Moreover for parents who are abuse children, then it can affect physical health, and also child’s mental. Grace Craig in Human Development 1986 says, “What constitutes child abuse may depend on the social milieu and community standards of a particular family. Although much of the damage suffered by children is due to carelessness or look supervision, the results can be just as tragic as those of intentional abuse.” This book gives explanation about parents who are intimately bond with children. How parents should give preferential treatment to their children, and not abuse children. Because abusing children can be destroy the hope of love, trust, and mentality of them. The drawback affection, attention from parents, also may be an important factor in child development. Children have often been the target of abusing. The characteristics of children who have often been the target of abuse, they usually are afraid of getting close to someone, and even afraid to socialize to families and communities. The worst of 16 abusing children, it causes a very deep trauma, and imprint in his mind. Mental become incoherent, and can provoke the splitting of personality.

2.4 Multiple Personality disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder DID