abuse

Abuse is the action and effect of abusing. This verb implies misusing, excessive, unfair, improper or improperly something or someone, as detailed in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE).

The notion of abuse can be applied in different ways to form different concepts. A authority abuse, for example, is someone who commits a higher when he exceeds in the exercise of attributions in front of a subordinate, generally humiliating him and forcing him to perform tasks that are not part of his obligations, or to work more hours than those agreed without increasing his remuneration.

The abuse of force It occurs when a security force, such as the police, violently attacks a civilian, whether provoked or not, since in no way can the violence against the people be justified by those who promise protect it; It is very common to witness this type of abuse during the course of a public demonstration. This term is linked to abuse of superiority.

The trust abuse, on the other hand, supposes an infidelity that someone carries out against a person who, through carelessness, inexperience or affection, has given him a space in his life. Although the concept shares the term "abuse", it is one of the less serious, since in general it entails an excessive use of borrowed objects, or repeated disrespect such as visits without having received an invitation and at complicated hours.

The abuse of rights is the exercise of a right that it is carried out in the opposite direction to its own purpose and that entails an injury to others.

When, in competition law, a business or a group of companies takes advantage of their advantageous situation to the detriment of competitors or users, we speak of abuse of dominant position.

The concept of sexual abuse represents at the same time one of the crimes most common and most ignored. The main culprits of this contradiction make up a dangerous set of human attitudes: neglect, denial and shame. The first two are usually attributed to the parents or guardians of minors who are forced to have sexual relations by a relative or friend of the house; In general, the victims are people with whom sex has not been discussed, boys and girls who have not been prepared to react to an invasion of their privacy.

The most common consequence of such a lack of information is confusion, especially when it comes to young children, who have not yet passed the stage of latency. Memories of sexual encounters cannot be fully understood, which is why they are partly accepted as common facts, and it is assumed that all people of the same age share these experiences. If there are no threats from the aggressor (who, contrary to popular beliefs, can be both a man and a woman), it is possible that the abused person speaks with their elders, although not necessarily to report the abuse, but simply to tell about it. just like you do with the rest of the things that happen in your daily life.

That's when the negligence, the worst of the three aforementioned attitudes, kicks in and causes irreparable wounds in the mind of the abused. A parent who takes a comment of this magnitude lightly is as responsible for the abuse of their child as the abuser, if not more. Abused children are said to fear showing signs of attacks because of the fear that is implanted in their brains, but the study of many cases with fatal endings shows that there were signs of abuse, and that they were not perceived as such due to the regrettable deficiency that characterizes communication in families.