Emotional abuse represents the most common type of abusing since it can appear on its own and in correlation with other types of abusing aswell(ex. physical abuse). Furthermore,emotional abuse mostly happens within the family, far from others and far from the sight of the public, so it makes it difficult for the communty to recognize it and react to it properly.It is necessary to distinguish emotional abusing from emotional neglecting. Authors dealing with this subject have different opinions about defining this term. If parents are not showing love to their kids, or they are constantly threating them, if they leave their kids to live on their own, if they mock them, or they disrecpect and underestimate them, they are emotionally abusing their children. On the other hand, emotional neglecting is something different. Parents are not paying attention to their children, they are cold and pasive towards them and unreachable when kids need them. In addition to that, this text will mention some characteristics which can help recognize abused children. There are some characteristics of parents and alsorelations with their child, that can cause abusing too. There are many consequences of abusewhich differ from child to child, and are also associated with the age of the child experiencing emotional abuse, and at the same time with ways of dealing with it.