This Master's thesis deals with child abuse in the family. At present, children are treated equally as adults. They have their rights as stipulated by the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and receive care, education and training from adults. The world has become more sensitive to violence and numerous organisations fighting violence have emerged. This Master's thesis initially presents the history of violence against children and focuses on the types, signs and consequences of abuse, highlights the characteristics of abusers and finally provides a brief analysis of the roles of institutions that focus on child abuse. The empirical part of the thesis utilises a qualitative research with a semi-structured interview to highlight how signs of abuse are reflected at school using a concrete example. In order to obtain more information, the research included not only a victim of psychological and psychical violence in the family but also her two friends. This provided better insight into the school environment and a view from a different perspective. The questions related to expressing emotions, personality, the social environment, learning ability and specific signs at school. After analysing the interviews, we established that non-specific signs were present. These mostly relate to expressing emotions and the behaviour of the victim of psychological and physical violence in the social environment. The signs of psychological and physical abuse were covert, as the victim hid the abuse and did not talk about family matters at school. Specific signs, such as bruises, were not visible. The hidden nature of the signs was the key problem in recognising them in the school environment. The second problem is (was) the lack of training of teachers for recognising signs of abuse and lacking knowledge of the field.
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