Recognizing & Preventing Physical Child Abuse

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Physical Child Abuse

scholarly journals Socioeconomic Status Moderates the Impact of Emotional but not Physical Childhood Abuse on Women’s Sleep

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl L. Currie ◽  
Erin K. Higa ◽  
Lisa-Marie Swanepoel
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Physical Child Abuse ◽  
Moderating Variables ◽  
Childhood Socioeconomic Status ◽  
The Impact

AbstractA recent systematic review highlighted associations between childhood abuse and adult sleep quality, and the need for research focused specifically on women and the role of moderating variables. The objectives of the present study were (1) to assess the impact of frequent physical and emotional child abuse on adult sleep among women; and (2) to assess the role that childhood socioeconomic status (SES) could play in moderating these associations. In-person data were collected from women living in a mid-sized city in western Canada in 2019–2020 (N = 185; M age = 40 years). Sleep quality was measured using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Physical and emotional abuse experienced often or very often in childhood were assessed using single items (yes or no). Childhood SES was assessed by a single item and dichotomized at the sample median. Linear regression models examined associations between each form of abuse and continuous adult sleep quality score adjusted for covariates. Statistically significant interactions were stratified and examined by child SES group. Frequent physical and emotional childhood abuse were each associated with clinically and statistically significant increases in past-month sleep problem scores among women in adjusted models. This association was moderated by childhood SES for emotional child abuse, but not physical child abuse. Findings suggest that growing up in an upper-middle to upper SES household may buffer the adverse impact of frequent emotional child abuse on later adult sleep, but may not promote resilience in the context of frequent physical child abuse. 

Histological demonstration of haemosiderin deposits in lungs and liver from victims of chronic physical child abuse

1999 ◽  
Vol 112 (5) ◽  
pp. 280-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Dorandeu ◽  
G. Perie ◽  
H. Jouan ◽  
B. Leroy ◽  
F. Gray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Physical Child Abuse

An Economic Assessment of Parents' Self-Composure: The Case of Physical Child Abuse

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D Agee ◽  
Thomas Crocker ◽  
Jason F Shogren
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
Economic Assessment ◽  
Child Behaviors ◽  
Physical Child Abuse ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Maximum Likelihood Procedure ◽  
Child Violence ◽  
Parent Child

Abstract This paper uses a maximum likelihood procedure that accounts for unobserved heterogeneity in the sample to implement a preference-based model to assess factors that influence parents' likelihood of losing their composure and physically abusing their children. A basic supposition of the model is that parents prefer to deal with parent-child conflict by choosing tactics and behaviors that do not exceed a specified level of violence; however, endogenous parent and child behaviors and exogenous circumstances may arouse parents' emotions that cause this level to be exceeded. Our results suggest policy interventions that influence such circumstances and associated behaviors may strongly influence the incidence of physical child abuse. We estimate the ex ante annual value parents attach to risk reductions of self-composure losses associated with excessive parent-child violence. This value is shown to be greater than currently estimated annual savings in ex post costs associated with a comparable decrease in U.S. physical child abuse incidence.

scholarly journals Perceived social risk in medical decision-making for physical child abuse: a mixed-methods study

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather T. Keenan ◽  
Kristine A. Campbell ◽  
Kent Page ◽  
Lawrence J. Cook ◽  
Tyler Bardsley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Medical Decision Making ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Medical Decision ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Physical Child Abuse

Evaluations of the Effects of Sweden's Spanking Ban on Physical Child Abuse Rates: A Literature Review

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Larzelere ◽  
Byron Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Physical Punishment ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Physical Child Abuse ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
Social Experiments ◽  
Pertinent Data ◽  
The Usa

Sweden's 1979 law banning corporal punishment by parents was welcomed by many as a needed policy to help reduce physical abuse of children. This study reviews the published empirical evidence relevant to that goal. Only seven journal articles with pertinent data were located. One study reported that the rate of physical child abuse was 49% higher in Sweden than in the USA, comparing its 1980 Swedish national survey with the average rates from two national surveys in the United States in 1975 and 1985. In contrast, a 1981 retrospective survey of university students suggested that the Swedish abuse rate had been 79% less than the American rate prior to the Swedish spanking ban. Some unpublished evidence suggests that Swedish rates of physical child abuse have remained high, although child abuse mortality rates have stayed low there. A recent Swedish report suggested that the spanking ban has made little change in problematic forms of physical punishment. The conclusion calls for more timely and rigorous evaluations of similar social experiments in the future.

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