What Teachers can do to Stop any form of child abuse?

Abusive people come from all walks of life and they have a background of emotional stress.Usually any form of abuse takes place there because of a crisis.Many children in the society abused and even other abusers don't know that they are abusing children.
Berger (1983) says an abuse is the action that is deliberately harmful to an individual's well being .Johnson(1978)refers to child abuse as any raring techniques the results in physical harm ,depth and emotional deprive of the child's self-esteem or not meeting the basic needs of the child.Park (1989)says child abuse is an act that results from physical and psychological damage to a child.Cohen (1992)defines child abuse as an intentional physical and or emotional maltreatment of a child by an adult especially a person responsible for care giving .Whilst Diaz in UNCEF identifies child abuse as portion of harm to children that results from human action ,that's prescribed,procimate and preventable.
Forms of abuse are divided into four categories:sexual abuse or exploitation,emotional abuse and physical abuse or violence and neglect .
Not all children abused is a deliberate or intended action. Several factors in a human life may combined to cause abusive aggression to their young ones.
However in most of our communities there many misconceptions related to child abse:
•Abusers are unknown to their victims.
•Only girls can be abused sexually.
•Victim tells lies about the abuse.
•Trusted people don't abuse people or kids.
•If there is a relationship there is no abuse or victims of sexual abuse enjoy it.
•Victims of sexually abuse normally invite the perpetrators.
•Child abuse is rare .
Child abuse only takes place to the disadvantage , poor underpriviledged families.
•Perpetrators of child abuse are retarded or abnormal.
•Child abuse is common in the black communities only.
What Teachers do to Stop /Reduce Child Abuse in Schools and Communities.
During RME and other social subjects teachers can discuss with children ways to help child to have an awarenes of child abuses and how to cope in every situation.
Teachers should educate the parents during the parents' day at school on how to do with some of child abuse.Parents and care givers should be educated on child abuse and the needs of children to be met at all costs necessary.
Teachers should completely cease to use any forms of punishment to children.or any person should expose or report any form of child abuse and don't wait until the problem happen,reports of child abuse should be through the school head and then to the police .Why?A child suspect should be reported ,for the sake of the child .It may be difficult to report because of possible repercussions to the child or the reporter .But it will relieve you to know that the victim is assisted and given a new santuary.
Remember the authorities will investigate and if the suspects are found guilty the victims will be relocated to a safe environment.
In most cases reporting is anonymous and no one will know who reported the case and even though don't give them your name to allow investigstors to do their work without fear,intimidation or favour.The perpetrators will never know who reported the case as they are facing the full course of justice.