scholarly journals Immigrant Latino Fathers’ Perceptions of Child Abuse and Neglect

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Hermeet K. Kohli ◽  
Susan Fineran
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Child Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Latino Families ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Emotional Pain ◽  
Abuse And Neglect

The objective of this qualitative research was to study the lived experiences of child abuse and neglect for immigrant Latino fathers whose children are involved in the child protection process. We documented the narratives of nine immigrant Latino fathers attending fatherhood groups regarding their perceptions of child abuse and neglect.The immigrant Latino fathers highlighted their lack of agency and marginalization due to acculturative parenting stress, structural discrimination, and immigration status. They are burdened with physical and emotional pain that diffuses into their children’s lives and results in unhealthy coping strategies. The Latino fathers faced everyday microaggressions, racial abuses, and discrimination due to their agency and role as Latino immigrants. They chronicled their frustrations dueto distrust of the mainstream social service providers, police, immigration officials, and abuse meted on them due to their marginalized identities. We provide practice and policy recommendations for professionals working with immigrant Latino families.

scholarly journals Child Protection in Canada and England: A Comparative Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Gabriela Ivan
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Child Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Child Protection Workers ◽  
Canadian Child ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Similarities And Differences

At a time when the Canadian child welfare is at a crossroads and strives for a direction that leads to better outcomes and engagement with the families and service providers, placing the Canadian child’s welfare in the international context of child protection is essential for improving the system and learning from others. This phenomenological research endeavours to compare the child protection systems of Canada and England from the legislation perspective, with the focus on the definitions of child abuse and neglect, in order to identify some of their similarities and differences and capture some aspects of the child protection workers’ experience with the legislation and with these definitions. Furthermore, this explorative paper examines the implication of the legislation and the definitions of child abuse and neglect on the day-to-day work of the child protection workers who have experience in working in both countries – Canada and England – and identifies some of the similarities and differences of the two child protection systems. The child-protection system in Canada and England has undergone many changes over the years to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, but the direct implications of these changes on the child-protection workers and their day-to-day work is little known and understood. While in England the child protection legislation is consistent along the country, in Canada each province/territory has its own legislation in child protection, and therefore each of them has policy manuals, guides and protocols providing working definitions of abuse and criteria used in making determinations of abuse. The legislation and policy in child protection act as essential tools in the interventions with the main focus to keep children safe. In order to ensure that the children have the right to live a life free from any form of maltreatment, most countries have developed their own child-protection system, which is highly influenced by the cultural and socio-economic context of that specific country, as well as by the needs of its various communities.

The contribution of a hospital child protection team in determining suspected child abuse and neglect: Analysis of referrals of children aged 0–9

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 1664-1669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Chen ◽  
Saralee Glasser ◽  
Rami Benbenishty ◽  
Bilha Davidson-Arad ◽  
Shmuel Tzur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Child Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Abuse And Neglect

scholarly journals Child Abuse And Neglect: Mandatory Reporting and the Legal Profession

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Deverson
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Child Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Mandatory Reporting ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Legal Professional ◽  
Reporting Laws

Child abuse and neglect affects approximately 42 500 children in Australia each year. Parliaments in all Australian states and territories have introduced mandatory reporting into child protection legislation to protect vulnerable children by requiring certain individuals to report suspicions of abuse or neglect. However, lawyers are prevented from reporting because of the rules governing legal professional privilege and confidentiality. This article begins by examining the problem of child abuse and neglect in Australia and outlines the current legislative framework of mandatory reporting laws in Part II. Part III discusses the current rules governing lawyers and examines legal professional privilege and the duty of confidentiality. Part IV provides arguments for and against requiring lawyers to report suspected abuse and also considers the lawyer-client relationship and the special position of domestic violence victims. Part V offers recommendations for the proposed legislative reform. This article concludes that lawyers should be required to report child abuse and neglect.

Changing Spectrum of Serious Child Abuse

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-715
Author(s):  
KAREN J. HANSON
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
Abuse And Neglect

To the Editor.— Child abuse and neglect is receiving considerable attention in both the scholarly and popular press. The acknowledgment of this problem, however, represents an admission of social failure, and explanations frequently serve as displacement mechanisms, value justifications, or support for agendas unrelated to child abuse and neglect. In an area currently receiving widespread media attention, it is crucial that research used to justify policy recommendations be clearly conceptualized, well supported by the data, and rigorously critiqued, both inhouse and in the public arena.

Reporting to Child Protection Services

2019 ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Lea Tufford
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Child Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

This chapter discusses the steps mandatory reporters take when contacting Child Protection Services. Included in this chapter is information regarding to whom the report is made, the types of information that Child Protection Services may require, timelines for reporting, how to handle emergency situations, and organizational policies for reporting. The chapter also includes attention to reporting anonymously and challenges for mandatory reporters who attempt to function as child protection investigators. Objectives include understanding the role and function of Child Protection Services, exploring what information is required by Child Protection Services when making a report regarding a suspicion of child abuse and neglect, appreciating the rationale behind an anonymous report to Child Protection Services, identifying the benefits and challenges of reporting in the workplace, and summarizing how to protect client confidentiality when reporting.

The Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect in Ireland in an International Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-167
Author(s):  
Conor Hanly
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Child Neglect ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Child Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Mandatory Reporting ◽  
International Context ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Children First ◽  
New System

Abstract Starting in the early 1990s, reports published over a quarter of a century detailed shocking levels of child abuse and child neglect in Ireland, along with failures by Church and State officials to take effective action. These revelations, supported by international research, made a compelling case for the introduction of some form of mandatory reporting. Yet until 2015, Ireland’s child protection system relied upon the discretion of those who suspected incidents of child abuse. The Children First Act 2015 introduced a new system of mandatory reporting that applies to professionals working in the health, education, childcare and law enforcement fields, a system that became active at the end of 2017. This article reviews the development of the reporting system in Ireland, and analyses the new obligations created by the 2015 Act. The article also analyses some initial figures for 2018, which show a substantial increase in the number of reports of child abuse and neglect made in that year. Additionally, the article argues for the insertion into the new system of some nuance in order that victim autonomy might be better respected.

Re-referral for Complex Child Abuse and Neglect Concerns: The Influence of Family and Child Factors in a 25 Year Data Set

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Melissa Kaltner
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Child Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Complex Case ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Parental History ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
Child Factors ◽  
Complex Cases

ObjectiveThe study reviewed a 25-year dataset of child abuse and neglect concerns, examining child and family factors associated with re-referral.MethodsSuspected child abuse and neglect data collated from a variety of sources including child protection, health, police and education by a multidisciplinary Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect team for the 25-year period of 1980 to 2005 was entered for analysis. Case referral criteria for the team included clinician perception of the case as being complex and necessitating multidisciplinary case planning. The dataset contained 6669 cases of child abuse and neglect concerns, relating to 5943 unique children.ResultsThe majority of children (90.5%) experienced only one referral to the team, with the remaining experiencing between 2–6 referrals. Through the utilisation of regression analysis, the factors of number of abuse types present at the initial concern, parental abuse as a child, parental intellectual disability, parental history of violence, perpetrator of intrafamilial origin, disabled children in family, and financial stress in family were found to significantly predict complex case re-referral respectively.ConclusionsChildren within this Australian sample of complex cases experienced rates of re-referral similar to those reported internationally. Family and child factors identified as predictors of re-referral in this 25-year dataset support previous international studies on statutory child protection re-referral, and evidence for the association between previously unstudied variables and re-referral likelihood for complex cases.

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