Emotional Abuse in Children: Variations in Legal Definitions and Rates Across the United States

Child emotional abuse has an intangible quality that has resulted in confusion regarding both medical and legal definitions. This retrospective review of emotional, physical, sexual abuse, and neglect rates reported by the National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect Data System revealed a 300-fold v...

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Published in:Child maltreatment 2002-11, Vol.7 (4), p.303-311
Main Authors: Hamarman, Stephanie, Pope, Kayla H., Czaja, Sally J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Analysis of Variance
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Abuse
Child Abuse - legislation & jurisprudence
Child Abuse - statistics & numerical data
Child Abuse - trends
Child, Preschool
Crime Rates
Definitions
Emotional Abuse
Emotions
Female
Humans
Incidence
Infant
Law
Legal system
Male
Maltreated children
Medical sciences
Methodology. Experimentation
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Rates
Socioeconomic Factors
States (Political Subdivisions)
Techniques and methods
United States
United States of America
USA
Variability
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