Abuse-+By+Lauren


 * Abuse** refers to the use or treatment of something (a person, item, substance, concept, or vocabulary) that is seen as harmful. The term comes from the words "abnormal use". It can be used for anything ranging from the misuse of a piece of equipment to the severe maltreatment of a person.

An example of physical abuse in the Glass Castle was at the end of the story Jeanette’s dad shows physical abused when he gets mad a Jeannette and he decides that she need to learn a lesson and he physically hits Jeannette with his belt on the back of her legs. “Dad shoved me up against the wall. “Or by God I’ll show you whose boss around here.” His face was inches from mine. “What are you going to do to punish me? I asked. “Stop taking me to bars?” Dad drew back his hand as if to smack me. You watch your mouth, young lady. I can still whip your butt, and don’t think I won’t.” “You can’t be serious,” I said. Dad dropped his hand. He pulled his belt out of the loops on his work pants and wrapped it a couple of times around his knuckles. “Apologize to me and to your mother,” he said. “No.” Dad raised the belt. “Apologize.” “No.” “Then bend over……..Finally, to call his bluff, I turned around, bent over slightly, and rested my hands on my knees. I expected him to turn and walk away, but there were six stinging blows on the backs of my thighs, each accompanied by a whistle of air. I could feel the welts rising even before I straightened up.”
 * Physical abuse:** Where one person inflicts physical violence or pain on another.

”He turned down the street to Junior’s bar. We all watched him go. “You’re ashamed of us?” Lori called after him. Dad just kept walking. Four days later, when Dad still hadn’t come home, Mom sent me to go find him. “Why do I always have to get dad?” I asked. “Because he likes you best,” she said. “And he’ll come home if you tell him to.” The first step in tracking down Dad was going next door to the Freeman’s, who let us use their phone if we paid a dime, and calling Grandpa to ask if Dad was there. Grandpa said he had no idea where Dad was. My first stop, as always, was Junior’s. It was the fanciest bar in Welch….Is my dad here?......I seen him this morning at the Howdy House…I went to the Howdy House, which was a notch below Junior’s….the bartender told me Dad had gone to the Pub, which was a notch below the Howdy House.
 * Drug abuse:** the misuse of drugs, alcohol or other substances, usually a form of addiction. Throughout the Glass Castle Jeannette’s dad misuses alcohol and it defiantly affects his whole family.

Child neglect is a category of maltreatment related to child abuse, when the biological parent(s) or legally assigned adult(s) fail to provide for the proper physical care needs of their dependent children. The neglect of children is generally about three times more common than physical abuse and about six times more common than sexual abuse. In the Glass Castle the parents Rex and Rosemary in a way neglect providing food for their children but, in a way it was not their fault they were doing the best they can do. As a result when Jeannette started sixth grade she got in the habit of, “When other girls came in and threw away their lunch bags in the garbage pails, I’d go retrieve them. I couldn’t get over the way kids tossed peanut-butter crackers, sliced pickles, half pint cartons of milk, cheese sandwiches with just one bite taken out because the kid didn’t like the pimentos in the cheese. I’d return to the stall and polish off my tasty finds.
 * Neglect** means to leave uncared for or to leave undone. Neglect may also refer to:


 * Authors Note**: The farther I got into this story I really couldn’t believe how much abuse these kids in this story had to go through on a daily basis. Before reading this book in this class I had never heard about it and I just picked it because everyone was saying that it was a fast read but, once I started reading the book I quickly began to realize that their was more to this then just being a quick read. I also didn’t have to much background information about abuse other then reading a few other stories before this one. Now I have realized their can be more than one type of abuse. If I was the author I think my first priority would be to tell my story because I feel that these types of lives are very personal but, I can also see how it could be used to educate others about a specific topic. For me who would like to be the classroom I feel this story to be read in a way that it would educate me as to what to see in kids in the class room.