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Understanding the Risks of Child Abuse & Neglect




Risk factors for physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect often (but not always) include:

  • poorly-developed parenting skills

  • parental substance abuse

  • domestic or family violence

  • parental criminal activity

  • parental mental illness

  • financial stress

  • single parenthood

  • low parental age

  • child’s difficult temperament

  • parent’s own abuse and/or neglect as a child

Risk factors for sexual abuse, which is nearly always inflicted by someone known to the child, often (but not always) include:

  • gender

  • marital conflict

  • low parental attachment/overprotective parenting

  • parental substance abuse

  • parental absence

  • presence of a stepfather (Ronan, Canoy & Burke, 2009; Putnam, 2003)

  • Parents living in circumstances where there is domestic or family violence or intimate partner violence, or who experience mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, or other contextual stressors with fewer social support mechanisms, are more likely to abuse or neglect their children.

Which of the ‘systems’ around the child do you think have the most influence in your country/region?


Why do you think so?


© QUT 2018. All rights reserved. CRICOS No. 00213J

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