News on child abuse in the press presentation

The children have a special and great importance for the future of humanity in general and for the future of society in special. The cognitive, behavioral and emotional development of the people occur during the childhood process. It is known that there are 23 million people who are between the ages of 0-17. Thus, the importance of the children in our country is getiing more and more effective. The effectiveness of the mass media in our every field of life cause the children being exposed to it in their childhood process.The children gain some attitude and behaviour via mass media which they see and take sometimes parts in. When our national media is dealed, the ordinary children are seen on the mass media when they are aggrieved (by being captalized) or when they are perpetrator.In this survey, it is established how the abuse of the children is published in the printed media.In this regard, CUmhuriyet, Hürriyet, Milliyet, Posta, Yeni Şafak and Zaman's one yearling series ,the most read papers of Turkey, are searched.In order to identify abusement types and their frequencies, the number of the news and photo was designated. As a conclusion it is seen that there are distinctive discrepancy between the newspaper's news about the child abuse. In the mass media, it is concluded that sexual abuse of the children has more attention among the child abuse and while all the abuse types are being made news, by directly proportional the news politics of the newspapers, either the journalists just give information about the incident and there is no specialists view or they try to make popular the news.Key Words: The Children, abuse, harrassed, rape, street urchin,pedophilia,incest.