children are the most vulnerable segments of each society because of their disabilities, lacking of different skills and unfamiliatity with their rights. they are mainly dependent upon their adults to keep them out of danger. so, if parents are not proper enough for this responsibility, tire incident of child abuse wil.1 be inevitable and most of them will originally start in tlreir own family....

the prevalence of child abuse in the world is 47 per 1000. according to the child protective service agency (cps) more than 3 million children were abused in the usa in 1998. there was 1.7% increase in comparison with 1996. the prevalence of child abuse in the usa is 15 per 1000. a crosssectional study was conducted in order to determine the frequency, and influential factors on child abuse amo...

This case study describes the Enough Abuse Campaign, a multidisciplinary, statewide effort to prevent child sexual abuse in Massachusetts. The study uses the Institute of Medicine's Framework for Collaborative Community Action on Health to provide a systematic description of the campaign's process of implementation, which includes: (a) developing a state-level infrastructure for child sexual ab...

This paper reviews the literature on the nature and incidence of child sexual abuse, explores the link between child sexual abuse and later sexual exploitation, and reviews the literature on prevention strategies and effective interventions in child sexual abuse services. Our understanding of the international epidemiology of child sexual abuse is considerably greater than it was just 10 years ...

OBJECTIVES To provide a comprehensive profile of the prevalence of child sexual abuse as well as other forms of child victimization in China and to examine the associations between child sexual abuse, demographic factors, and other forms of child victimization. STUDY DESIGN Using a 2-staged stratified sampling procedure, we recruited a total of 18,341 students in grades 9-12 (girls 46.7%, mea...

OBJECTIVES Exposure to child maltreatment is associated with physical, emotional, and social impairment, yet in Canada there is a paucity of community-based information about the extent of this problem and its determinants. We examined the prevalence of child physical and sexual abuse and the associations of child abuse with early contextual, family, and individual factors using a community-bas...