Peer-reviewed article
Violence Against Infants and Children - Practical Implications Regarding Prevention Issues
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Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This article gives an overview of violence against infants and children, including physical, sexual and psychological violence. It describes how violence can pass from one generation to the next, and reports that figures on how common it is vary widely. It also reviews factors that make violence more or less likely. The authors argue that prevention should involve many participants and institutions, and should reach parents and schools as well as children.
Key points
- Child violence takes many forms, including physical, sexual and psychological violence.
- Violence tends to be reproduced across generations, and experiencing it predicts violent behaviour in raising one's own children.
- Reported prevalence of sexual violence varies widely, from 3% to 36%.
- Sexual violence mainly affects children aged 6 to 13, while children under 4 are most likely to suffer physical and psychological abuse.
- Prevention should use a multi-level approach and target parents and schools, not only children and young people.
Limitations
The abstract does not name the countries covered, the review methods or the sources of the prevalence data. It does not evaluate a specific prevention programme, so it cannot show which prevention measures work.
Abstract
The article presents an overview of the problems of child violence, a wide range of its variants-physical, sexual and psychological violence, etc. It is shown that child violence has the quality of transgeneration, in one form or another, is reproduced in the next generations. The experience of violence is also a negative predictor of violent behavior that will manifest itself in the upbringing of their own children. Indicators of the epidemiology of violence are presented. The data vary greatly, for example, the prevalence of sexual violence ranges from 3% to 36%. Sexual violence mainly affects children between the ages of 6 and 13. Children under the age of 4 are most likely to suffer from physical and psychological abuse. Up to a third of victims of sexual violence may show appropriate behavior towards their own or other children. An overview of the factors that predispose / retard the formation of child violence is presented. These are factors such as age, gender, ethnic origin, disability, and social status of the parents. Prevention work should be based on a multi-level concept (multiple participants or institutions are involved). Appropriate measures to prevent violence should not (cannot) only target children / young people, but should also affect, in particular, parents and schools.