This is one of the more obvious kinds of abuse and yet it can be overlooked and covered up.
Physical abuse includes hitting, slapping, pushing, punching, withholding vital medicine, or refusing to help someone with a medical need. Actions such as throwing things through windows, breaking things, or threatening to shoot someone are a combination of physical and emotional abuse.
Wikipedia Encyclopedia gives this definition of physical abuse:
Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause pain, injury, or other physical suffering or harm.
Basic forms include:
striking
punching
pushing, pulling
slapping
Whipping
striking with an object
Locking in out of a room or place/False imprisonment
pinching
kicking
having someone fall
kneeing
strangling
head butting
drowning
sleep deprivation
exposure to cold, freezing
exposure to heat or radiation, burning
exposure to electric shock
placing in "stress positions" (tied or otherwise forced)
cutting or otherwise exposing somebody to something sharp
exposure to a dangerous animal
throwing or shooting a projectile
exposure to a toxic substance
infecting with a disease
withholding food or medication
spanking is subject to controversy as to whether it qualifies as
physical abuse.
assault
bodily harm
humiliation
torture
Blinding a person/causing vision impairments e.g. throwing acid into eyes/face, having eyes gouged out.
negligence
Biting
DARLENE
WOW THAT is some list of how to abuse some one.
as a child I was sure that spanking was hard and
curl punishment.
but that was a child's mind when I HAD my 3 boys
spanking was not in those catagories
dgrimm60
Spankings can be abusive. They can also be done in love and kindness which does not make them abusive.
In my family we got straps with a belt on our hands and they were often done in anger. I would say those bordered on abuse. We also received some other kinds of punishment in the list above, and yet my parents were doing the best they knew how. The cycle of abuse in families had not been broken yet.
Wikipedia Encyclopedia gives this definition of physical abuse:
Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause pain, injury, or other physical suffering or harm.
Basic forms include:
Usually more than one form of physicalabuse is used. The only one left out is one that I understand to be very popular; strangulation to the point of unconsciousness.