The Queensland legal system is currently outdated and due to this, child abuse levels are rising. The Queensland laws on family issues were created quite a long time ago, and with the changing ways of society, the laws must be updated to have any effect on the victims and offenders.


The child abuse laws in Queensland are currently insufficient and not suitable for many of the problems abused children face. The current law is based around the action of taking the child abuse victim away from his/her inflicting environment and put into government care (a children's home). This is good for a short-term solution but the issues that the child has acquired during its torment will generally be a life long concern. Counselling should be made a necessity for both the abuser and the abused, as well as the immediate removal of the child. When a parent is found to be guilty of child abuse, they can be charged under torture, assault, assault and battery, mistreatment of a minor. The law needs to bring in a system where the guilty parents of child abuse can be charged by child abuse laws, not those of common crimes in society.


Child abuse is a long-term thing, which will affect the victim for his/her life. Child abusers generally abuse their own children, creating a long-term cycle, which will continue generation after generation. Queensland police reports have claimed that seventy percent of criminals were abused as children. Abuse is classified as many different things, not just physical abuse, as most would believe. The lack of many of the parent's obligations could be classified as child abuse. Child abuse can be physical, sexual, mental, and verbal. Physical abuse is, physical harm, torture etc. Sexual abuse is forced sexual contact where someone has not consented. Mental abuse is...