Child Abuse Linked With Development of Cancer in Adulthood

By: Adil Imran

Findings in a recent study have proposed that kids, who are ill-treated by their parents and more often abused are at a high risk of developing cancer in adulthood. It has been notified that the chances of raising the cancer are more in case, daughters are frequently abused by their mothers and sons by their fathers.
The study stated that by abusing a child, the parent is at the same time is mocking them, disgracing them and humiliating them.
Moreover, exposing a child to brutality or hurting their emotions, or imposing strict rules and regulations onto them, including physical abuse and also not providing them with basic requirements, including food, clothing and neglecting them are all considered under a one category as ‘abuse’.
Kenneth Ferraro, professor of sociology at the Purdue University Centre, said “People often say that children are resilient and they'll bounce back, but we found that there are events that can have long-term consequences on adult health”.
Children, who were emotionally hurt by their parents or were physically abused, were at a significant risk of developing cancer as they grow up into an adult. Rather, the more was the powerful and recurrent was the abuse, the chances of cancer increase.
Ferraro emphasized that child abuse should be counted as environmental factor leading to development of cancer.