Child abuse is a recognized public health and social problem worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), child abuse includes all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect and negligent treatment and exploitation. Child maltreatment is a global problem with serious life-long consequences. In spite of recent national surveys in several low- and midd...

child abuse is a recognized public health and social problem worldwide. according to the world health organization (who), child abuse includes all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect and negligent treatment and exploitation. child maltreatment is a global problem with serious life-long consequences. in spite of recent national surveys in several low- and midd...

Child maltreatment that includes emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect has been widely documented as a risk factor for diverse negative consequences in adolescence and adulthood (suderman & DePrince, 2015).for adolescents, these consequences include educational problems, heightened rates of law infringement, aggressive behavior, as well as various mental disorders such as mo...

background recently, parenting programs to address behavioural and emotional problems associated with child maltreatment in developing countries have received much attention. there is a paucity of literature on effective parent education interventions in the local context of pakistan. this study aimed to assess the feasibility of offering a 6-week parenting program for mothers of pre-school chi...

child maltreatment that includes emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect has been widely documented as a risk factor for diverse negative consequences in adolescence and adulthood (suderman & deprince, 2015).for adolescents, these consequences include educational problems, heightened rates of law infringement, aggressive behavior, as well as various mental disorders such as mo...

What constitutes evidence of child maltreatment varies from state to state: each state has its own definition of child maltreatment and its own evidentiary standard for determining child maltreatment. Some states count infants’ prenatal exposure to drugs as child maltreatment, for example, while others do not. Some states require a preponderance of the evidence for a case to be substantiated as...

BACKGROUND Child maltreatment causes substantial morbidity and mortality in the U.S. Morbidity associated with child maltreatment can reduce health-related quality of life. Accurately measuring the reduction in quality of life associated with child maltreatment is essential to the economic evaluation of educational programs and interventions to reduce the incidence of child maltreatment. The ob...

This study examined child maltreatment perpetration among 99,697 active-duty U.S. Air Force parents who completed a combat deployment. Using the deploying parent as the unit of analysis, we analyzed whether child maltreatment rates increased postdeployement relative to predeployment. These analyses extend previous research that used aggregate data and extend our previous work that used data fro...

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...