Educational Neglect and Child Protection in Ontario

Child maltreatment and educational attainment in young adulthood: results from the Ontario Child Health Study.

There is increasing evidence for the adverse effects of child maltreatment on academic performance; however, most of these studies used selective samples and did not account for potential confounding or mediating factors. We examined the relationship between child physical abuse (PA; severe and non-severe) and sexual abuse (SA) and educational attainment (years of education, failure to graduate...

Child protection medical service demonstration centers in approaching child abuse and neglect in Taiwan

Child abuse includes all forms of physical and emotional ill treatment, sexual abuse, neglect, and exploitation that results in actual or potential harm to the child's health, development, or dignity. In Taiwan, the Child Protection Medical Service Demonstration Center (CPMSDC) was established to protect children from abuse and neglect. We further analyzed and compared the trends and clinical c...

Child protection and justice systems processing of serious child abuse and neglect cases.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the trajectory of cases through four systems: child protection, law enforcement, the dependency courts, and the criminal courts. METHOD This study focused on a county selected from a 41-county telephone survey conducted for the National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3). For this analysis prospective samples were drawn from law e...

The neglect of "child abuse and neglect".

Child abuse and neglect.

he publication of “The Battered Child” by C. Henry Kempe and coworkers introduced child maltreatment (CM) to the pediatric literature, and in the 46 years following its publication, the knowledge in the field has expanded. CM pervades every area of pediatrics. Pediatricians are mandated reporters and play an important role in the identification of child abuse and neglect. This article seeks to ...