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Latino children who experience ACEs such as incarceration, maltreatment, and interpersonal trauma are at heightened risk and susceptibility for substance use disorders (SUDs) in later life. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Research suggests that Latino children who experience household incarceration are at risk of increased binge drinking, marijuana use, and ...
Child maltreatment encompasses various forms of abuse and neglect, such as physical and emotional mistreatment, sexual abuse, negligence, and exploitation, leading to potential harm to a child's ...
In just the United States, alone, 6.6 million children have been referred to agencies for child protection after a report of child abuse and neglect had been reported. [9] The center is national, focusing on America, itself, yet child abuse and neglect happens everyday, everywhere.
Nationwide, there was a 2348% increase in hotline calls from 150,000 in 1963 to 3.3 million in 2009. [7] In 2011, there were 3.4 million calls. [8] From 1992 to 2009 in the US, substantiated cases of sexual abuse declined 62%, physical abuse decreased 56% and neglect 10%.
The key federal legislation addressing child abuse and neglect is the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), originally enacted in 1974 (Public Law 93-247). It was amended several times and was most recently amended and reauthorized by the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016.
Under Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a 'child protection system' provides for the protection of children in and out of the home.One of the ways this can be enabled is through the provision of quality education, the fourth of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, in addition to other child protection systems.
[2] [3] The Child Welfare Information Gateway covers child-welfare topics, including family-centered practice, child abuse and neglect, abuse and neglect prevention, child protection, family preservation and support, foster care, achieving and maintaining permanency, adoption, management of child welfare agencies and related topics such as ...
North Carolina puts thousands of children in harm’s way by failing to fix the state’s broken child welfare system, says a federal class action complaint filed on behalf of nine foster children.