Impact of Child Abuse on Aboriginal Communities: A Sociology Report

This report delves into the critical issue of child abuse and its profound impact on Aboriginal communities in Australia. It begins by defining child abuse and exploring its causes, emphasizing the disproportionately high rates among Aboriginal children. The report examines the research questions, which include the meaning and causes of child abuse, and its impacts on Aboriginal communities. It presents a literature review highlighting the challenges faced by Aboriginal children, including higher rates of maltreatment and systemic disadvantages. The report outlines the research methodology, including sampling techniques and data collection methods, while also addressing potential ethical implications. Strengths and limitations of the research are discussed, along with a conclusion that underscores the importance of addressing child abuse to foster societal development and well-being. The report also includes references to relevant studies and publications.

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It is analysed that in Australia, child abuse is running at
a high rate. It is identified that aboriginal children face
many challenges in their life. It is found that aboriginal
children face seven times more likely to become the
part of child abuse as compared to non-Aboriginal
children (Douglas and Fitzgerald, 2018). Child abuse is
referring to the activities which includes psychological,
sexual and physical ill treatment. It is very important
topic for the society that they should take necessary
measures for removing child abuse from the roots of
society. It helps in developing humanity in society. It is
performing by parent or caregiver which becomes the
result in potential harm to the child. It is against human
as well as fundamental rights. In Australia, there are
many children who belong to Aboriginal countries face
situations of maltreatment
Impact of child abuse or maltreatment on Aboriginal
communities: According to Collings and et. al., 2018 it is
analysed that day to day increase in child abuse cases in
Australia. Every year it is rise with the number of 115471.
This statistic is disclosed by Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare (AIHW). Because of continuing increasing in number
of child abuses cases, it directly gives negative impact on
society. Aboriginal communities face many issues because of
this as they didn’t received facilities which normal people
received. It gives negative impact as it destroys the humanity
from society. Because of this issue, children suffer from
depressions, they are getting fear from people. It destroys the
positive impact and attitude of society. It reduces the chances
of development of society as well as economic. One of the
main reasons of low growth rate of Australia is their social
issue.
 What is the meaning of child abuse?
 What are the main causes of child abuse acts?
 What are the impacts of child abuse on
Aboriginal communities and societies?
To study the impact of child, abuse on society
Problem statement and Research
Questions Literature ReviewResearch Questions

Research methodology
For finding the real data it is analyses that researcher selects
some areas and population size so that they can take
information from them. It is finding that researcher select
1000 people from local communities to identify the impact
of child abuse cases on society. They select from aboriginal
as well as normal communities.
It is analyses that this topic gives some benefits to society as it
helps in finding the exact position and realities of current situation
(Marshall and Goddard, 2020). With the help of this research,
countries welfare organisation takes some important steps that help
to overcome and reduce the social issue.
References
Collings, S., and et. al., 2018. Intersectional
disadvantage: exploring differences
between Aboriginal and non-
Aboriginal parents with intellectual
disability in the New South Wales
child protection system. Journal of
Public Child Welfare, 12(2), pp.170-
189.
Douglas, H. and Fitzgerald, R., 2018. The
domestic violence protection order
system as entry to the criminal
justice system for Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people.
International Journal for Crime,
Justice and Social Democracy, 7(3),
p.41.
Kendall, S., and et. al., 2019. Holistic
conceptualizations of health by
incarcerated aboriginal women in
New South Wales, Australia.
Qualitative health research, 29(11),
pp.1549-1565.
Marshall, V. and Goddard, C., 2020. The
Australian Media and Child Abuse.
In Gendered Domestic Violence and
Abuse in Popular Culture. Emerald
Publishing Limited.
Sampling Potential Ethical Implications
Data collection is the important term that helps to collect
information to the related subject matter. Data collection is
very important step. It applies after the selection of sample
size and population. This investigation. There are many
situations occur in the society that gives negative impact on
society.
Data collection
It is very important for researcher that they should take ethical
activities in consideration. It is analysed that in most investigations,
ethical things become a factors that influence wrong result and
inaccurate data (Kendall and et. al., 2019). It is analysed from the
studies that researcher should take actions for making their details
confidential. They must be concern with some ethical things such as
dignity, protection, privacy, conflicts of interest, confidentiality,
anonymity, etc. These things should be considered in mind that they
take care of everything which affects the privacy of people. In
research they have a risk of leaking information about their samples.
Strengths and Limitations