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Factors Responsible For Child Abuse And Neglect Among Parents
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There exist many manifestations of child neglect,
including non-compliance with health care recommendations, failure to
seek appropriate health care, deprivation of food resulting in hunger,
and the failure of a child physically to thrive. Other causes for
concern include the exposure of children to drugs and inadequate
protection from environmental dangers. In addition, abandonment,
inadequate supervision, poor hygiene and being deprived of an education
have all been considered as evidence of neglect.
Data on non-fatal
child abuse and neglect come from a variety of sources, including
official statistics, case reports and population-based surveys. These
sources, however, differ as regards their usefulness in describing the
full extent of the problem. Official statistics often reveal little
about the patterns of child abuse. This is partly because, in Ika South
Local Government Area of Delta State there are no legal or social
systems with specific responsibility for recording, let alone responding
to, reports of child abuse and neglect. In addition, there are
differing legal and cultural definitions of abuse and neglect between
societies. There is also evidence that only a small proportion of cases
of child maltreatment are reported to authorities, even where mandatory
reporting exists.
Case series have been published in many countries.
They are important for guiding local action on child abuse, and raising
awareness and concern among the public and professionals (Corso and
Mercy, 2011). Case series can reveal similarities between the
experiences in different countries and suggest new hypotheses. However,
they are not particularly helpful in assessing the relative importance
of possible risk or protective factors in different cultural contexts,
this study is therefore set to investigate the factors that are
responsible for child abuse and neglect among parents in Ika South Local
Government Area of Delta State.
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