“We must give the public balanced views of the [child abuse] problem and its solution. Yes, we need to hear about the horrible cases of violent and deadly abuse. But we also need to know about the subtler, but equally devastating, cases of neglect...

In November 2000, a San Jose man was riding in a female coworker’s car when he thought he heard a child moaning. According to Sergeant Steve Dixon of the San Jose Police Department, the man “looked in the back seat. There was no one there....

In the United States, on average, a child is abused every 13 seconds. Because of social awareness, reported child abuse has increased dramatically since the 1980s. Some states have experienced a 20 percent increase in reported child abuse between 1990...

Child Abuse, Physical Alternative Terms: Battered Child, Child Maltreatment, Family Violence Physical child abuse refers to harm to the child inflicted by the caregiver. Every year, nearly 1,400 cases of fatal child abuse are reported. Recent...

Child Abuse, Sexual and Emotional Committed acts of sexual or emotional assault or neglect on a child. Child abuse includes assaults in any of several domains (physical, sexual, or emotional) and may be acts of commission (abuse) or omission (neglect)....

Child abuse is the blanket term for four types of child mistreatment: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect. In many cases children are the victims of more than one type of abuse. The abusers can be parents or other family members,...

The issue of child abuse is centrally relevant to men and boys in terms of both those who perpetrate child abuse and those who are subject to it. Men and boys as perpetrators of child abuse is a welfare topic that, in many countries, has been difficult...

the willful infliction of pain and suffering on children through physical, sexual, or emotional mistreatment. Prior to the 1970s the term child abuse normally referred to only physical mistreatment, but since then its application has expanded to...

In the United States, on average, about twelve out of every 1,000 children are abused or neglected each year. A precise number may be impossible, as many cases are never reported, but the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimated that...

National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse The National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse (NCPC A) is a volunteer-based organization of concerned citizens in the corporate, civic, lay, and professional communities working together to prevent child abuse....

Crime of inflicting physical or emotional injury on a child. The term can denote the use of inordinate physical violence or verbal abuse; the failure to furnish proper shelter, nourishment, medical treatment, or emotional support; incest, rape, or...

Medical condition, occurring in infants and young children, in which there is evidence of repeated injury inflicted by others to the nervous system, skin, or skeletal system. Frequently, the child’s medical history, as given by the caregiver,...

Failure of a parent or other person legally responsible for a child’s welfare to provide for the child’s basic needs and a proper level of care with respect to food, clothing, shelter, hygiene, medical attention, or supervision. Child...

Davidson, J.O. (2005) Children in the Global Sex Trade, Cambridge: Polity. Save the Children Europe Group (2005) Position paper regarding online images of sexual abuse and other Internet-related sexual exploitation of children. See also: child abuse;...

Any person under the age of 18 years, in the charge of a caregiver, who is physically or emotionally harmed by the caregiver’s act or omission; also known as maltreated...

Act of commission by a parent or caregiver that is not accidental and that harms or threatens to harm a child’s physical or mental health or...

Child abuse is the physical, emotional or sexual abuse or neglect of children by parents, guardians, or others. While most child abuse happens in the child's home, large numbers of cases of child abuse have been identified within some organizations...