Preventing Child Abuse: Critical Roles and Multiple PerspectivesPublication Date: 2021
Most maltreated children have long-lasting harm that reveals itself through behavioural and emotional maladjustment, developmental delay, sadness, and other destructive behaviours later in childhood, adolescence and into adulthood. These injuries to their personality, sense of self, relationship to society and mental health change the trajectory of their lives and dim their potential, with social and financial costs for safety, treatment and their lost personal growth. Includes discussion of: corporal punishment, sexual abuse, sex trafficking & tourism, UN Convention on the Rights of the child and the prevention of child maltreatment in the US, child pornography, food insecurity, housing, substance abuse, home visiting, technology, big data, artificial intelligence, mobile technologies and applications, Period of PURPLE Crying, disability and abuse around the world, child abuse prevention in the faith-based (Catholic, Christian, Jewish) environments, incest, sibling abuse.