State and sex-specific trends in the annual incidence of child marriage in the United States since the year 2000
CONCLUSIONS: Child marriage continues across most of the United States and reflects gender inequities in American society. The continued legality of marriage before the age of 18 is at odds with the country's commitment to eliminate child marriage by the year 2030 and violates the human rights of children, primarily girls, across the country.PMID:38043459 | DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106566 (Source: Child Abuse and Neglect)
Source: Child Abuse and Neglect - December 3, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Alissa Koski Kaya Van Roost Fraidy Reiss Source Type: research
Infants entering out-of-home care: Health, developmental needs and service provision
CONCLUSIONS: The findings point to the importance of developmental assessment of infants in care and the identification of developmental vulnerability and delays. The provision of early intervention services is essential for this group of high-risk infants and will be important in optimising their health, as well as social and emotional outcomes.PMID:38044250 | DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106577 (Source: Child Abuse and Neglect)
Source: Child Abuse and Neglect - December 3, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Fernando Lima Stephanie Taplin Miriam Maclean Melissa O'Donnell Source Type: research
Desistance from physical abuse in a national study of Nepal: Protective informal social control and self-compassion
CONCLUSION: The findings suggest that interventions to boost desistance from maltreatment and break the cycle of abuse in Nepal, should focus on promoting protective informal social control actions.PMID:38044251 | DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106588 (Source: Child Abuse and Neglect)
Source: Child Abuse and Neglect - December 3, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Clifton Emery Alhassan Abdullah Srijana Thapa Ko Ling Chan Cheryl Hiu-Kwan Angel Hor-Yan Lai Bobo Hi-Po Lau Christine Wekerle Source Type: research
Mother-child reporting discrepancies of child physical abuse: Associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms
CONCLUSIONS: These results illustrate how examining informant discrepancies in the assessment of abusive parenting practices increases our understanding of children's psychological adjustment in high-risk contexts.PMID:38041965 | DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106575 (Source: Child Abuse and Neglect)
Source: Child Abuse and Neglect - December 2, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Diogo Lamela Rita Pasion Raquel Costa Tiago Miguel Pinto Ana Morais In ês Jongenelen Source Type: research
Discovering child sexual abuse material creators' behaviors and preferences on the dark web
CONCLUSION: Our CSAM detection system exhibits high performance in precision, recall, and accuracy in real-time when classifying CSAM and non-CSAM posts. Additionally, it can extract and visualize valuable and unique insights about CSAM creators and victims by employing advanced statistical methods. These insights prove beneficial to our partners, i.e. national hotlines and child agencies.PMID:38041966 | DOI:10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106558 (Source: Child Abuse and Neglect)
Source: Child Abuse and Neglect - December 2, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Vuong M Ngo Rahul Gajula Christina Thorpe Susan Mckeever Source Type: research
