For several years, rates of child abuse and child maltreatment had been either slowly declining or remaining stagnant. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, those rates began to rise.

The existentialist psychologist Viktor Frankl has famously argued that absence of meaning in life leads people to boredom, which they try to mitigate with alcohol and drugs. If Frankl is right, an ...

Child neglect is the most common form of maltreatment, involving failure to provide basic needs or proper supervision, often difficult to define precisely. Originating from Latin meaning “not to heed, ...

The following story deals with reports of childhood maltreatment, including neglect and physical and sexual abuse. This week, we released results from the Australian Child Maltreatment Study. It is ...