This comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis aims to quantify the association
between different types of childhood maltreatment and suicidality. We searched five …

It remains unclear whether children and adolescents in the child welfare system (CWS)
exhibit a higher prevalence of mental disorders compared with the general population. The …

Importance Children and young people's reports of experiences of adverse childhood
events have increased in recent years, and this trend has been associated with an elevated …

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the lives of persons around the world and social scientists
are just beginning to understand its consequences on human behavior. One policy that …

Child maltreatment incurs a high lifetime cost per victim and creates a substantial US
population economic burden. This study aimed to use the most recent data and …

Introduction This study estimated the US lifetime per-victim cost and economic burden of
intimate partner violence. Methods Data from previous studies were combined with 2012 US …

Substantial research shows that early adversity, including child abuse and neglect, is
associated with diminished health across the life course and across generations. Less well …

It has long been claimed that “maltreatment begets maltreatment,” that is, a parent's history
of maltreatment increases the risk that his or her child will also suffer maltreatment. However …

Objectives. To estimate the lifetime prevalence of official investigations for child
maltreatment among children in the United States. Methods. We used the National Child …

Violence shatters lives. Around the world almost half a million people are murdered each
year. Beyond these deaths, millions more children, women and men suffer from the …