This study examines the relationship between the number of types of traumatic events experienced by children 3 to 6 years old, parenting stress, and children's posttraumatic stress (PTS). Parents and caregivers provided data for 154 urban children admitted into community-based mental health or developmental services. By parent and caregiver report, children experienced an average of 4.9 differe...

Violence against children by peers is a global public health problem. We aimed to assess factors associated with peer violence victimization among primary school children in Uganda. We conducted multilevel multivariable logistic regression analyses of cross-sectional data from 3706 primary students in 42 Ugandan primary schools. Among primary school students, 29% and 34% had ever experienced ph...

Despite indications that homicide rates decreased by 16% globally between 2000 and 2012, violence remains widespread. Non-fatal acts of violence take a particular toll on women and children. One in four children has been physically abused; one in five girls has been sexually abused; and one in three women has been a victim of physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence at some point in her...

this article studies harmful effects of various forms of illegal trade and illegitimate use of small arms and light weapons on the human life. the authors continue to present a definition of small arms and light weapons and then scrutinize the different types of their illicit trade and various aspects of their impact on armed conflicts, living conditions of women and children, refugees, humanit...

BACKGROUND There is close association between maltreatment during pregnancy and child abuse after birth. AIM To compare anthropometric growth and use of health services of children whose mothers suffered maltreatment with children coming from families without domestic violence. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A longitudinal study of two cohorts. An index groups formed by 76 children whose mothers expe...

Violence against children is a dynamic, changing social phenomenon. Every society, regardless of the level development democracy, economic and political development, protection human rights, encounters violence on daily basis. The first professional interests in were made between two world wars, but active measures to oppose it appeared mid-sixties twentieth century, most developed countries. I...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of domestic violence against mothers in a pediatric emergency department and the relationship of their children to the abusers. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of mothers seeking treatment for their children. SETTING An urban pediatric emergency department. PARTICIPANTS A total of 157 mothers with children <3 years of age. Women ...

This article explores violence among street children in Makeevka, Ukraine. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data gathered during longitudinal field research, extra-, intra-, and inter-group violence is analyzed with an emphasis on the child's situational interpretation and adoption of the code of the street through subsequent code/identity switching and subcultural reactions. The main fi...