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Also known as: battered child syndrome, child neglect, cruelty to children
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child abuse, the willful infliction of pain and suffering on children through physical, sexual, or emotional mistreatment. Prior to the 1970s the term child abuse normally referred to only physical mistreatment, but since then its application has expanded to include, in addition to inordinate physical violence, unjustifiable verbal abuse; the failure to furnish proper shelter, nourishment, medical treatment, or emotional support; incest and other cases of sexual abuse, molestation, or rape; and the use of children in prostitution or pornography. Surveys in North America and Europe that ask adult subjects to recall childhood mistreatment indicate that between 10 and 30 ...(100 of 1759 words)

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