Child Abuse Abuse is the improper use of power by one person to the detriment of another. In today’s society and world, spouses of marriages have been receiving abuse more frequently over the years. In most cases, the victims of the abuse are women but in other cases it can be men also. There is still one more victim of abuse.......the children. Out of all three of these victims of abuse, children in today’s society receive the most abuse. Child abuse is a complex issue, no single factor can adequately explain why parents physically abuse their children. There are several significant variables that may contribute towards a situation in which a child is at risk of physical ab