child abuse
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Child abuse is the maltreatment or neglect of a child, which can include physical harm, emotional mistreatment, or failure to provide necessary care. It matters because it causes serious harm to children's safety, development, and well-being.
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Research
66,167 papers- Child Sexual Abuse.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2025
- Child Psychological Abuse.Pediatrics in review · 2017
- Child Sexual Abuse.Pediatrics in review · 2017
- [Child abuse].Der Radiologe · 2016
- Child sexual abuse.Lancet (London, England) · 2004
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Article
Child abuse (also called child endangerment or child maltreatment) is physical, sexual, emotional and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child, especially by a parent or a caregiver. Child abuse may include any act or failure to act by a parent or a caregiver that results in actual or potential wrongful harm to a child and can occur in a child's home, or in organizations, schools, or communities the child interacts with.
Different jurisdictions have different requirements for mandatory reporting and have developed different definitions of what constitutes child abuse, and therefore have different criteria to remove children from their families or to prosecute a criminal charge.