Children who have suffered early abuse or neglect may later present with significant health and behavior problems that may persist long after the abusive or neglectful environment has been remediated. Neurobiological research suggests that early maltreatment may result in an altered psychological and physiologic response to stressful stimuli, a response that deleteriously affects the child's su...

BACKGROUND Sher, Grekin, and Williams (2005) pointed out the existence of 4 main etiological, but not mutually exclusive, models that might explain the development of alcohol use and misuse. The aim of the present study was to explore 3 of these 4 pathways in which psychological (personality and drinking motives) and environmental (child maltreatment) variables may play a relevant role: positiv...

The preceding section provides new and important information about the link between exposure to one or more types of child maltreatment and impairment that moves the field beyond the association with mental health problems. Despite differences in samples, measurement, and design, the message is consistent across these studies: child maltreatment is associated with a broad range of adverse physi...

Attitude towards domestic violence and child corporal punishment contributes to maltreatment, however, the interplay of these violent practices is not well researched in Africa. Thus, we sought examine association between emotional physical women's attitude wife-beating among Somali women. We used data collected 2011 Somaliland Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) from 4,820 households. ana...

• Survivors of child welfare practices show poorer mental health in later life. also report high exposure to and severity maltreatment. Self-esteem acts as mediator between emotional abuse neglect health. Child maltreatment is a common occurrence has frequently been shown adversely impact over the lifespan. Minors affected by have higher risk However, long-term correlates health, addition poten...

The prevalence of child maltreatment in Suriname has never been subjected to a reliable assessment. The only data available include rough estimates of a range of internationally comparable indicators extrapolated from child protection and police corps statistics for offenses against children. This study aimed to provide a reliable estimate of the prevalence of all forms of child maltreatment in...

There has been increased awareness of child maltreatment in Saudi Arabia recently. This study assessed the readiness for implementing large-scale evidence-based child maltreatment prevention programs in Saudi Arabia. Key informants, who were key decision makers and senior managers in the field of child maltreatment, were invited to participate in the study. A multidimensional tool, developed by...

OBJECTIVE Understanding suicide risk is a priority for the US military. We aimed to estimate associations of childhood maltreatment with pre-enlistment suicidal behaviors in new Army soldiers. METHODS Cross-sectional survey data from 38,237 soldiers reporting for basic training from April 2011 through November 2012 were analyzed. Scales assessing retrospectively reported childhood abuse and n...

BACKGROUND The occurrence of multiple births has been recognized as a risk factor for child maltreatment. However, few population-based studies have examined the relationship between multiple births and child maltreatment. This study aimed to evaluate the degree of risk of child maltreatment among singletons and multiple births in Japan and to identify factors associated with increased risk. ...

I document that the recent Great Recession caused large decreases in referral rates for child maltreatment: areas most affected by the recession saw the largest decreases. This fits with some previous work that finds that poor economic conditions are associated with lower reported child maltreatment rates. I argue that this was due not to decreases in actual maltreatment rates, but rather large...