Citation

Freitag R, Lazoritz S, Kini N. Pediatr. Clin. North Am. 1998; 45(2): 391-402.

Affiliation

Child Protection Center, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9568018

Abstract

Childhood is an image that advertisers use to conjure up feelings of care-free innocence. Society frequently calls for protecting our children and creating strong, healthy families. Yet thousands of children experience violence on a regular basis, and their lives are irretrievably altered. For these children, the sites of violence and not war-torn villages or crime-ridden streets but their own homes. This article provides primary care physicians with basic information about the psychosocial aspects of recognition and prevention of child abuse.

Language: en