When Does Domestic Violence,Equate With Parental Failure to Protect?

Child nuzitreotment does uot exist in isoIatiorr,fFvm otherfonns offamily violence. Notably research supports rhe connection between wife abuse and child maltreatment, and research on the possible consequences to children exposed to domestic violence has influenced o redefinition of child maltreatmenf legislation and policy. Recently, some states have considered and parsed legislation making witnessing of domestic violence, per se, a form Of criminal child abuse. This article explores concepttrnl discontinuiries in oficial dejnitions of child maltreatment in relation to domestic viaience fuiiure to protect mattem by drawing on dota from iegisiative reviews, child protective services, and individual-level dejinitionr. Implicarions for pnliq pmcticc, and lpsearclz are addressed