Ontario

Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary, 2011

Canada’s Children (Spring 2006),

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2012

The concept paper submitted for ISCPAN on behalf of WCH in 2016. This was presented in Galgary, Canada.

2005

This is an overview of the second cycle of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS- 2003). The French Version of this article is available in the Tspace under the name: "Etude canadienne sur l’incidence (ECI) des signalements de cas de violence et de negligence envers les enfants – 2003" This article was published under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-ND. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ca/

Child Abuse & Neglect, 2003

Calgary: University of …, 2005

2014

2002

Child abuse has for a long time been recorded in literature art and science in many parts of the world. Reports of infanticide mutilation abandonment and other forms of violence against children date back to ancient civilizations. The historical record is also filled with reports of unkempt weak and malnourished children cast out by families to fend for themselves and of children who have been sexually abused. For a long time also there have existed charitable groups and others concerned with children’s wellbeing who have advocated the protection of children. Nevertheless the issue did not receive widespread attention by the medical profession or the general public until 1962 with the publication of a seminal work The battered child syndrome by Kempe et al. The term "battered child syndrome" was coined to characterize the clinical manifestations of serious physical abuse in young children. Now four decades later there is clear evidence that child abuse is a global problem....

Child Survival, 1987