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Pieterse, Joop J.; Van Urk, Hero – Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1989
The study compared data from doctors in the Netherlands from 1974 and 1983. Findings indicated a threefold increase in child abuse and neglect cases, a large increase in emotional maltreatment, an increase in detection of child fatalities, but a decrease in the severity of physical abuse. Sexual abuse was recognized far more often in 1983.…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Children, Foreign Countries
