A study of almost 300,000 Australian children over 12 years has revealed that those who have suffered "substantial maltreatment and neglect" are four times more likely to miss school for extended ...

A recently published three-decade study (Armfield et al., 2021) based on data sets from 38,556 unique mother-child dyads from the Impacts of Child Abuse and Neglect (iCAN) study addresses the ...

Childhood maltreatment leaves a lasting impact that goes far beyond physical injuries or fading memories. Scientific evidence has long shown that children who experience abuse and neglect face ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Child abuse is linked to long-term risk for negative health outcomes. Boys and girls experienced decreases in ...

Do parents abused as children become child abusers? Many interacting factors increase risk for intergenerational maltreatment.

• The diagnosis of child maltreatment, which is based on a combination of clinical features rather than a single diagnostic test, is often difficult for pediatricians to make, yet it can have major ...

Experiencing abuse or neglect as a child can cause multiple mental health problems, finds a new study. Experiencing abuse or neglect as a child can cause multiple mental health problems, finds a new ...

A new study published in the scientific journal Addiction has found that people who are maltreated as children may be three times more likely to be admitted to hospital for alcohol and substance use ...

A recent study published in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect has reported that the number of child maltreatment reports and child welfare interventions decreased significantly in New York City ...

A new study published in the journal BMC Public Health reports that children who were physically or sexually abused, neglected or otherwise treated badly, are at higher risk of showing delinquent ...

Child abuse and neglect is, unfortunately, a far more common occurrence in Australia than many people realise. In Australia in 2020–21 (the most recent figures available), there were more than half a ...