What My Resources Have Shown Me

Over the week I chose three sources on my topic to write my annotated bibliography. Each of these sources had valuable information which I used in my annotated bibliography. One source had more information about the emotional consequence child abuse has a child, such as isolation depression, anxiety, eating disorder, suicide attempts, P.T.S.D., and low self-esteem. The second source I used for my paper taught me about the economic consequences of child abuse in adulthood. Adults who suffered from child abuse have a lower level of education, low earnings, fewer assets, and are less likely to own a home, a bank account, stock, a vehicle, and also more likely to have a mortgage debt. My last source has a bit of everything, such as health consequences of child abuse, psychological consequences of child abuse, the types of abuse, short-term and long-term consequences, and the emotional instability of child abuse. Physical abuse in a early childhood can create malformation to certain parts of the brain which leads to speech problems, visual, cognitive, and motor damage. Behavioral consequences of physically abused children are delinquency, aggressive behavior, running away from home, lying, violent relationships, early sexual activity, addictions, problems in thinking, and social withdraw. The psychological consequences in this source are similar to my first one, such as depression, anxiety, P.T.S.D., learning difficulties, attention disorders, and problems with memory. Most of this is very surprising. I knew about some behavioral consequences, but everything else was new. I feel that I still need to learn what are the statistics to these consequences. That means I might have to look at more sources and find the ones who provide what I need. I might look at more articles.