Child abuse can indeed effect the family and the community around it. This is my personal take on the whole thing. If a child is being sexually, physically, or emotionally abused, of course the family will be affected. If the parents are doing the abusing nine times out of ten, the rest of the family doesn't know what's going on.
"Child abuse also affects our society because it increases the rate of other abuse in the family."
" If they have become so domineering to abuse one member of the family, then they will not often hesitate to abuse others, thus guaranteeing the continuation of the cycle of abuse for another generation."
http://voices.yahoo.com/how-child-abuse-affects-our-society-643377.html
But what if it's not the parent who is abusing the child? The thing is that even if it's not the parents, they will still be impacted. Let's say it's the mother's brother doing the abuse to the daughter, the mother will feel very bad after she finds out whats went on. She will eventually blame herself for not taking care of her daughter or for not noticing. She may even blame herself just for bringing the uncle around. Perhaps you should evaluate more on the other impacts of child abuse on families, not only in a situation where one of the parents are doing the abuse.
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