Throughout history, millions of children have been victims of physical abuse; the effects of this abuse have been shown to profoundly affect mental and physical health throughout a lifetime. Although child abuse has quickly become a more discussed issue, it is nothing new in today's society. Dating back to ancient times, physical child abuse has always been attributed to the lives of people around the world. Approaches and understandings of child maltreatment have changed as societies have modernized and advanced; while one thing remains an unsolvable issue, child abuse happens constantly and continuously all over the world. Looking back into ancient times, child abuse was a very important and underrated part of life. In ancient tribes, newborns were frequently killed simply to reduce the number of mouths to feed due to the limited availability of food. The people of ancient societies such as Egypt, Greece, and Rome beat or sacrificed their children to the gods in the hope that good fortune would be brought upon them, or to keep the gods normally happy (Dolan 37). As the centuries passed, child abuse became increasingly evident in everyday and family life. Many poor parents beat their children, breaking their legs or gouging out their eyes, so that the children would chase away pity from others while they were forced to beg. on the streets, in the nineteenth century. Because in the nineteenth century people believed that parents had the right to discipline and raise their children in the way they saw fit; Furthermore, based on the naive mentality that a parent could never hurt their beloved child, very few legal actions have been taken to stop physical child abuse. Due to advances in common law du...... middle of paper ......n continuously. The American Humane Association reports approximately 899,000 child abuse victims in America each year; according to studies carried out, 18% of these children are victims of physical abuse (Schuite 1). There is a name for that eighteen percent: physical abuse, but when examined and analyzed many different types of physical abuse have been found to be more harmful or harmful than others. A group of 313 professionals (lawyers, social workers, police, and pediatricians) all participated in a study to identify the different levels of severity in all types of abuse. Respondents rated each abusive situation on a nine-point scale, with the top point, nine, being the most severe and the bottom point, one, the least severe. The ratings were averaged to obtain an overall score between the most serious and the least serious.