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Black, Tara; Trocme, Nico; Fallon, Barbara; MacLaurin, Bruce – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2008
Objective: While child welfare policy and legislation reflects that children who are exposed to domestic violence are in need of protection because they are at risk of emotional and physical harm, little is known about the profile of families and children identified to the child welfare system and the system's response. The objective of this study…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Foreign Countries
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Wekerle, Christine; Wall, Anne-Marie; Leung, Eman; Trocme, Nico – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2007
Objective: Our goal is to assess the effect of caregiver vulnerabilities, singly and in combination, on the substantiation of child abuse (physical, sexual) and neglect, while controlling for relevant background variables. We test the moderator role of adult partner violence in qualifying the relationship between caregiver vulnerabilities and…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Anxiety, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
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Trocme, Nico; Fallon, Barbara; MacLaurin, Bruce; Neves, Teresa – Child Welfare, 2005
Rates of substantiated maltreatment documented by the 1993 and 1998 Ontario Incidence Studies of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect doubled between 1993 and 1998. Although increasing public awareness and changes in investigation procedures appear to account for part of this change, the increase also reflects a significant shift in the types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Incidence, Sexual Abuse, Child Welfare