Child Abuse and Culture

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"Cross Cultural Differences in Child Physical Abuse:
The Theory and Research
Introduction
Nature and Scope of the Problem
Over several decades, a substantial body of research has been accumulated indicating that there are a number of crosscultural differences in people's perspectives of what constitutes physical abuse of children (Hart, Binkley & Brassard, 1998).


Because many countries either collect no statistics on child
physical abuse and/or only minimal statistics, it is impossible to arrive at a global estimate of the problem (Buchanan, 1996).
However, it is known that in America alone, approximately three million children are reported to child protective services for child maltreatment; of these, about 22 percent are for..."

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