Child abuse is the deliberate and willful injury of a child. It is the intentional use of physical force or intentional omission of care by a parent or caretaker that causes a child to be hurt, maimed, or killed. It involves active, hostile, aggressive treatment and is a life-threatening violence. Abuse of children is more common than most people realize. Most people are not aware of the fact that deliberately hitting a child is considered a felony. Children have been beaten and abandoned for centuries, based primarily on the belief that they are the property of their parents. Types of abuse include physical, emotional, and sexual. It is caused mainly by parents who were maltreated as children themselves. Causes also include stress, poverty, and unemployment. In some cases children are mistreated when parents or caretakers have maladaptive responses to stressful situations or feel powerless. Other times it is the result of family problems over which the abuser has no control. A high percentage of abusing parents feel that they are legitimately exercising their parental right. They take the idea of discipline to a brutal degree. There is a higher percentage rate of mistreatment in families with mixed religion marriages. The kind of abuse varies depending on the age of the victim. Infant and pre-school children are more likely to suffer fractures, burns and bruises. School aged or teen females are suffering from sexual molestation. Hence, child abuse includes unreasonable physical violence, verbal abuse, failure to provide proper shelter, foodstuffs, medical treatment, emotional support or sexual molestation. It is our sincere duty to stop child abuse.