Child abuse and neglect in sub-Saharan Africa
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Child abuse could be defined from predomi nantly legal, clinical and research perspectives, and attempts at an integrative enunciation are fraught with over-inclusiveness. Meadow (1989) proposed that a child is considered to be abused if he or she is treated by an adult in a way that is unacceptable in a given culture at a given time. This definition usefully incorporates the essen tial issues including secularity and diversity of socio-cultural norms which often create contro versy in case detection and are particularly relevant to the debate. Concern for victims of child abuse in Africa was expressed by the African Network of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN, 1986) which gave five main presentations of child abuse: child labour, street wandering, sexual abuse, child battering and abandonment. Such a broad spectrum seems rational in that in health planning for the international community, with its variable, legal, cultural and clinical views of abuse, it ensures that the minimal number of genuine abuses would be undetected, although there is the inherent danger of inclusion of innocent cases.
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Child sexual abuse in sub-Saharan Africa: a literature review.
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