Most questions have answers and sometimes explanations, but there were many answers to the question of why people abuse children. The trauma of a child being abused can be described in various ways. Child abuse is the mistreatment or mistreatment of a child whether it is mental, physical, emotional, sexual, verbal, or psychological abuse. Child abuse is a traumatic experience. Child abuse is often synonymous with the term child maltreatment or the term child abuse and neglect. It has been said that trauma resulting from physical, mental, emotional, or sexual abuse as a child can affect an individual for the rest of their life. Such abuse can severely damage the victim's self-esteem. The effects of abuse are often pervasive on a mental, physical and social level. Suicide, violence, delinquency, drug and alcohol abuse, and other forms of crime are also linked to child abuse. Those who believe child abuse is extremely widespread are pushing for a more aggressive child protection system that would allow allegations to be investigated and prosecuted more efficiently. The growing involvement has encouraged many people to care with awareness and understanding. One of the main causes of abuse of a child is when he is in an unstable family. Unstable families, characterized by frequent changes of partners, are replacing stable marriages. For a mother, this result is increased stress and isolation from the baby. Frequent family changes also result in frequent role changes for adults within the family, leading to more confusion and greater stress for the entire family. In two-part families, especially step-parents, many conflicts arise. Of these parents, approximately 71% regularly argued about their children, 81% had a conflict over alcohol use at home. Many women have received very little balance and positive feedback from parents in the home. The abusive family lives in a way that separates the birth and raising of children from traditional marriage. This undermines children's well-being. For every hundred children born in the United States, twelve entered broken homes, either because they were born out of wedlock or because their parents obtained a divorce. In such circumstances children are more likely to experience abuse, neglect and new subcultures of abuse. The origins of religiously justified child abuse may seem hard to believe, but it occurs very frequently. Medical neglect driven by religious beliefs is another avenue through which children become victims of religious ideology.