Importance Child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences, especially when
recent and ongoing, affect adolescent health. Efforts to intervene and prevent adverse …

Fractures are common injuries caused by child abuse. Although the consequences of failing
to diagnose an abusive injury in a child can be grave, incorrectly diagnosing child abuse in …

OBJECTIVES. The goals were to determine how frequently primary care clinicians reported
suspected physical child abuse, the levels of suspicion associated with reporting, and what …

Objective To examine the effect of child abuse and other household dysfunction on child
health outcomes. Design Data from the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect …

This Clinical Report was reaffirmed October 2020. Child sex trafficking and commercial sexual
exploitation of children (CSEC) are major public health problems in the United States and …

OBJECTIVES. Primary care clinicians participating in the Child Abuse Reporting Experience
Study did not report all suspected physical child abuse to child protective services. This …

This clinical report updates a 2005 report from the American Academy of Pediatrics on the
evaluation of sexual abuse in children. The medical assessment of suspected child sexual …

OBJECTIVE: The relationship between adverse childhood exposures and poor health,
illness, and somatic complaints at age 12 was examined. METHODS: LONGSCAN (Consortium …

It is the pediatrician's role to promote the child's well-being and to help parents raise healthy,
well-adjusted children. Pediatricians, therefore, can play an important role in the prevention …

BACKGROUND In 1989, the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child,
through its Committee on the Rights of the Child, called on all member states to ban corporal …