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Child neglect, often overlooked, is the most common form of child maltreatment. [1] Most perpetrators of child abuse and neglect are the parents themselves. A total of 79.4% of the perpetrators of abused and neglected children are the parents of the victims, and of those 79.4% parents, 61% exclusively neglect their children. [2]
The effects of childhood trauma on brain development can hinder emotional regulation and impair of social skill [7] development. Research indicates that children raised in traumatic or risky family environments often display excessive internalizing (e.g., social withdrawal, anxiety ) or externalizing (e.g., aggressive behavior), and suicidal ...
The effects of this trauma can be experienced very differently depending on factors such as how long the trauma was, how severe and even the age of the child when it occurred. Negative childhood experiences can have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. [3]
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse and household dysfunction during childhood. The categories are verbal abuse, physical abuse, contact sexual abuse, a battered mother/father, household substance abuse, household mental illness, incarcerated household members, and parental separation or divorce.
Prolonged stress leads to adverse effects such as permanent emotional or developmental damage. [4] If sufficient support is not available, this type of stress can result in permanent changes in brain development. [4] Research has found that children experiencing severe and long-term abuse have smaller brain sizes. [15]
The physical effects of domestic violence on children, unlike the effects of direct abuse, can start when they are a fetus in their mother's womb, which can result in low infant birth weights, premature birth, excessive bleeding, and fetal death due to the mother's physical trauma and emotional stress.
Also, children who have experienced an ACE are at higher risk of being re-traumatized or suffering multiple ACEs. [7] The amount and types of ACEs can cause significant negative impacts and increase the risk of internalizing and externalizing in children. [8] To date, there is still limited research on how ACEs impact Latino children.
Child Maltreatment aims to report current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a form immediately useful to practitioners and researchers from fields such as mental health, child protection, medicine and law. The multidisciplinary journal provides a forum for the discussion on dissemination of research and findings.