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Mayes, Rachel; Llewellyn, Gwynnyth – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2009
It is unlikely that every parent with intellectual disability comes under the scrutiny of the care and protection system. That many do is evident in the figures from a number of countries that report between 30 and 40% of the children of parents with intellectual disability are removed from their parents' care and placed in protective custody, in…
Descriptors: Placement, Child Neglect, Mental Retardation, Parents with Disabilities
Hughes, Carolyn; McDonald, Meghan L. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (RPSD), 2008
Storey (2008), in his eloquent and timely critique of the Special Olympics and his call to close it down, focuses on the failure of the Special Olympics to achieve the goal of social integration and sustained social interaction among people with intellectual disabilities and their peers without a disability label. The authors wholeheartedly agree…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Stereotypes, Child Abuse, Social Integration
Wulczyn, Fred; Smithgall, Cheryl; Chen, Lijun – Review of Research in Education, 2009
The authors argue for closer collaboration between public schools and the public child welfare system, on behalf of children placed at risk, with respect to whether they will do as well in school as their abilities suggest they might, all else being equal. The need for closer collaboration is tied to two developments affecting schools and the…
Descriptors: Placement, Child Abuse, Research Methodology, Child Welfare
Triffleman, Elisa G.; Pole, Nnamdi – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2010
Objective: Studies examining psychological trauma or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in ethnoracial or sexual minority groups are relatively few. The "Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology" recently published 4 articles (Balsam, Lehavot, Beadnall, & Circo, 2010; Harrington, Crowther, & Shipherd, 2010; Lester, Resick, Young-Xu, & Artz,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Eating Disorders, Minority Group Children
Huber-Warring, Tonya – Multicultural Education, 2007
South Africa, a country with the highest incidence of rape and child rape in the world, has the fifth highest prevalence of HIV in the world, with 1.1 million AIDS orphans. The UNAIDS Global Report reveals 370,000 AIDS-related deaths in South Africa in 2003. Given the numbers of people infected and dying, South Africa is regarded as having the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Incidence, Rape, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Faller, Kathleen Coulborn – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2007
This commentary on "Motherhood in the Shadow of Incest" by Rachel Lev-Wiesel, is divided into three sections. In the first section, this author addresses the issue of the role of mothers in incest. Faller contends that, with regard to research findings on the role of mothers' own sexual victimization in her child's experience, previous research…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Mothers, Parent Role
Koverola, Catherine – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2007
The author was invited to prepare a commentary in response to the Lev-Wiesel manuscript titled "Intergenerational Transmission of Sexual Abuse? Motherhood in the Shadow of Incest." Lev-Wiesel's stated intent in the study was to understand an important issue, namely how is intra-familial sexual abuse perpetuated across successive generations. This…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Mothers, Parent Role
Pole, Christopher – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2007
Child-centred research methods present a range of opportunities for the researcher to gather rich and detailed data on many aspects of the lives of children. This article examines the experience of using such methods in the context of a study of children as consumers of clothing and fashion. Its principal concern is with the application of an…
Descriptors: Researchers, Intimacy, Ethnography, Child Abuse
Dutton, Donald G. – American Psychologist, 2007
Comments on the article by Robert Bornstein, "The complex relationship between dependency and domestic violence: Converging psychological factors and social forces." Although a more focused examination of the psychological factors involved in domestic violence is welcome, there are some factual errors in Bornstein's article that need attention and…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Victims of Crime, Intimacy, Gender Differences
Gore, Michele T.; Janssen, Karen G. – Preventing School Failure, 2007
In this article, the authors discuss factors that contribute to increased risk of child maltreatment for children with disabilities and outline multidisciplinary prevention and intervention strategies that focus on partnerships with educators and child protection professionals. The authors discuss interventions related to the identification and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Disabilities
Schilling, Robert F. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1986
The paper examines the low incidence of disabled children in state and national statistics on maltreated children despite an overrepresentation in research. The authors suggest that the child protection system may be neglecting developmentally disabled children by failing to recognize and document disabilities among maltreated populations.…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Disabilities
Becker-Blease, Kathryn A.; Freyd, Jennifer J. – American Psychologist, 2006
Most discussions of the ethics of self-report research on abuse and interpersonal violence focus on the risks of asking participants about their experiences. An important element of the cost-benefit analysis--the costs of not asking about child abuse--has largely been ignored. Furthermore, little research has been conducted on the costs and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Child Abuse, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Psychological Studies
Terpstra, Jake – 1984
The paper explores ways in which licensing of out-of-home care can be strengthened to improve child care and prevent child abuse. Protections for general child care are noted, including reference checks, review of child abuse report registers, and educational requirements. Additional activities other than rule enforcement activities that are…
Descriptors: Certification, Child Abuse, Day Care, Prevention
Meyer, Anneke – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2007
In the UK, the discourse of innocence currently prevails as a major way of understanding children. This article argues that the strength of this discourse lies in its prevalence, its resistance to challenges and the ways in which it connects ideas of innocence and vulnerability. The moral quality of the discourse of innocence works in conjunction…
Descriptors: Moral Issues, Children, Foreign Countries, Child Welfare

Mouzakitis, Chris M. – Child Welfare, 1984
Discusses differences between chronically and nonchronically abused adolescents, provides two illustrative case examples, and explores implications for different approaches to treating each type of case. (RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Clinical Diagnosis, Guidelines