Child abuse is a terrible misfortune for millions of childeren and famillies, for communities and for society.Many specialists as social problems, notice child abuse. Psychologists, pychiatrist, social workers, consoulers, family therapists, general practitioners, lawers and other specialists try to plan strategies for solving and preventing this problem . Many research have been done in this area , especially many of them are interested to explre the relationship between child abuse and parent’s addiction. These studies student cliam that addicted parents abuse theire children emotionally, physically and Sexually more than non – abused parents. Also, aggresion level and maltreatment in addictrd family are higher nirmal families. Individual, familial, scial efforts have made in international, non – govermental and govermental organization to organization to prevent these problems and support abuse chilren from different types of maltrement, because this subject has an enormous effects effects in mental heath services in society. The aim of this study is review the theorical approches of child abuse and its prevalency, ethiology, prevention, assessment and treatment. Also, we try to difine the relationship between child abuse and parents addiction and their side effects in different areas of childs life .

Keywords: Child Abuse, Parents Addiction and Aggression

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