Child fatalities from religion-motivated medical neglect.

Fatal child neglect: characteristics, causation, and strategies for prevention.

Research in child fatalities because of abuse and neglect has continued to increase, yet the mechanisms of the death incident and risk factors for these deaths remain unclear. The purpose of this study was to systematically examine the types of neglect that resulted in children's deaths as determined by child welfare and a child death review board. This case review study reviewed 22 years of da...

Underrecording of child abuse and neglect fatalities in North Carolina.

Active surveillance of child abuse fatalities.

Monitoring abuse related deaths of infants and young children yields information necessary to the formulation of sound public policy. Birth and death certificates were correlated with information in the state Child Abuse and Neglect Registry on 104 abuse related fatalities. Significant findings include: very young age of parents at the first pregnancy; high rate of single parenthood; significan...

Increasing Awareness of Child Neglect from a Social Work Perspective

Child neglect is the most common and arguably the most detrimental form of child maltreatment, yet public awareness of neglect lags far behind child abuse (Dubowitz, 2007). In 2009, an estimated 763,000 children in the United States were abused or neglected, 78% of whom experienced neglect, either alone or in combination with other forms of maltreatment. Approximately one-third (35.8%) of child...

Learning from tragedy: a survey of child and adolescent restraint fatalities.

OBJECTIVE This descriptive study examines 45 child and adolescent fatalities related to restraints in residential (institutional) placements in the United States from 1993 to 2003. METHOD The study team used common Internet search engines as its primary case discovery strategy to determine the frequency and the nature of the fatalities, as well as the characteristics of the children and the a...