Showing posts with label child abuse and neglect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label child abuse and neglect. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Soaring rates of childhood poverty should wake up child protection policy makers

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Reports out of the United States this week speak about soaring rates of children living in poverty, too often accompanied with homelessness...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Hamzah Khan - a powerful child death that has so much to teach us

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A Serious Case Review was published this past wee into the death in the UK of Hamzah Khan. She was profoundly neglect and when police enter...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Mortgage default, foreclosure and Child Abuse

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Many who have worked in the area of child abuse know that stress in family can be related to increased risk for abuse in a household. There...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Mandatory Reporting Laws

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There is often debate about whether mandatory reporting laws should exist. Should mental health, medical, education and other professionals ...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Psychosomatic problems in abused children

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In a Swedish study on the connection between somatic issues with children, there was a clear link between these and children who were physic...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Child Abuse Hospitalizations

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A study published this week in the American journal Paediatrics has a look at the issue of children who are abused and end up in hospital. T...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

What does violence cost us?

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In a most fascinating group of studies, the National Academies Press has published Social and Economic Costs of Violence: Workshop Summary...