Discover your Child: Is He/ She Abused by You Inside the House?

Abstract

This research seeks to reveal to the parents if they are abusing their children without knowledge inside the house. In order to answer the study questions, an instrument was developed to measure the abused behavior extent of including the items of abused. The instrument consisted of 50 items that involved five subscales  The instrument’s validity was tested through introducing it to specialists’ reviewers. Also the stability analysis was tested by re-analysis. The statistic data and frequencies were used to investigate the availability of the abused behavior. The study results showed that the mothers do not have the sufficient knowledge about the concept children abuse, inside the house, since the responses to all of the dimensions were below the medium, and some of the fathers and mothers abuse their children thinking that this is one of disciplines to make them acquire the desired behavior, and preventing them from the abnormal behavior.