Child abuse & neglect
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Child abuse & neglect · Jul 2010
Maternal violence, victimization, and child physical punishment in Peru.
This study examined whether mothers' experience of violence was a risk factor for physical punishment. ⋯ Increased public education is needed of the negative consequences of intimate partner emotional and physical violence victimization for mothers' childrearing strategies. There is a need to integrate intimate partner violence into child welfare programs and develop effective screening mechanisms for maternal violence victimization and child maltreatment.
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This article examines safe haven laws, which allow parents to legally abandon their infants. The main objective is to determine whether safe haven laws fit the criteria of crime control theater, a term used to describe public policies that produce the appearance, but not the effect, of crime control, and as such are essentially socially constructed "solutions" to socially constructed crime "problems." ⋯ Longitudinal studies and a nationwide database to better determine the effectiveness of safe haven laws are suggested. It is also crucial that agencies implementing SHLs closely monitor the reasons parents abandon their children, and adopt policies that re-focus the attention safe haven laws receive to address more frequent causes of harm to infants.
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Child abuse & neglect · Jul 2010
Adult adjustment of survivors of institutional child abuse in Ireland.
To document the adult adjustment of survivors of childhood institutional abuse. ⋯ Policies, practices and procedures should be regularly reviewed and revised to maximize protection of young people in institutional care. Evidence-based psychological treatment should be made available to adult survivors of institutional abuse.