Child abuse
Child abuse or child maltreatment is physical, sexual, and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child or children, especially by a parent or a caregiver. This is meant to be a learning resouces where educational and research materials related to child abuse and neglect can be organized and developed.
Discussion questions and essay ideas
- What can be done to help reduce the prevalence of child abuse?
- How might reducing poverty help to lower the rates of child abuse?
Readings
Wikipedia
- Child abuse
- Child sexual abuse
- Laws regarding child sexual abuse
- Child sexual abuse laws in the United States
- Child neglect
- Adverse childhood experiences
- Stress in early childhood
- Early childhood trauma
- Pedophilia
- Verbal abuse
- Alcoholism in family systems
- Psychological abuse
- Trafficking of children
- Female genital mutilation
External
- Screening Children
- Child Abuse and Neglect in the Home (ASU Center for Problem-Oriented Policing)
- What You Can Do to Prevent Child Abuse
- Save a Child: How to Identify and Report Child Abuse
- Government Resources: Society: Child Abuse
See also
- Motivation and emotion/Book/2014/Child emotional abuse
- Motivation and emotion/Book/2015/Child sexual exploitation material access motivation
- Motivation and emotion/Book/2021/Cognitive behaviour therapy for emotional abuse
- Motivation and emotion/Book/2020/Paedophilic motivation
- Missouri's Statistics on Foster Care
- Social work
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