Physically abused children may be repeatedly reported to child protection services and undergo multiple medical evaluations. Less is known about recurrent evaluations by hospital-based child abuse teams for possible abuse. The objectives of this study were to determine the frequency of repeated consultations by child abuse teams and to describe this cohort in terms of injury pattern, perceived ...

This article discusses issues in the adjudication of child sexual abuse allegations. Such allegations may be tried in criminal court and/or civil court (in child abuse or divorce proceedings), and these forums are discussed. Often central to any of these proceedings is the necessity for a child to testify. The article reviews research about the believability of child witnesses and discusses acc...

Expectations of contemporary child protection apparatuses are strongly influenced by beliefs inherited from the nineteenth century child rescue movement. In particular, the belief that child abuse determination is obvious. However, this assumption fails to make a distinction between nineteenth century’s emphasis on impoverished environments and the twentieth century introduction of the patholog...

This article traces the emergence of child abuse as a medical concern in post-war Britain and America. In the early 1960s American paediatricians and radiologists defined the 'battered child syndrome' to characterise infants subjected to serious physical abuse. In the British context, paediatricians and radiologists, but also dermatologists and ophthalmologists, drew upon this work and sought t...

Children have been abused by their parents and other adults from time immemorial. When children were considered chattel, the problem of child abuse was largely dormant. As the concept of child-as-person evolved during the nineteeneth and twentieth centuries, the groundwork was laid for increased public interest and concern. • The therapeutic optimism of the 1950s and the thrusts toward social p...

INTRODUCTION In 2007, Ministry of Women and Child Welfare, supported by United Nations Children's Fund, save the children and Prayas conducted a study to understand the magnitude of child abuse in India, they found that 53.22% children faced one or more forms of sexual abuse; among them, the number of boys abused was 52.94%. AIM The aim of this study was to explore the barriers for seeking ps...

In this paper we analyze the phenomenon of abuse and neglect in Romania order to reduce incidence phenomenon. This addresses issues regarding: description child abuse, types (e.g.: physical abuse; sexual emotional / psychological neglect), particularities children Romania, some therapeutic models used treating effects abuse.

PURPOSE Child abuse is a disturbingly common finding in society today. There have been substantial and significant increases in the incidence of child abuse since the last national incidence study was conducted in 1986. Kassebaum first reported the under-reporting of child abuse by Texas dental professionals in a survey in 1986. The objective of the current study was twofold: (1) assess the lev...

There is an association between child abuse and delinquency, but problems with study design, definition, and method currently prevent a definitive understanding of the sequences and causal relations involved. The evidence indicates that a bidirectional relationship exists between child abuse and delinquency. A framework that uses Patterson's analysis of coercive processes suggests that child ch...