This article examines the legal foundations of law enforcement activities in preventing violence against children. It analyzes the regulatory framework, including national legislation and international conventions, governing the functioning of police and other law enforcement bodies. The study highlights children's rights, protection mechanisms, the effectiveness of preventive measures, and the practical significance of legal interventions.
Parent training programmes have significant potential to improve the quality of children's early environments and thereby their development and life-course outcomes. The aim of this study was to identify and explain the extent to which parents engaged in two group-based training programmes, offered to high-risk families enrolled in a randomized controlled trial study called PIÁ in Southern Brazil. The programmes were: (1) ACT: Raising Safe Kids, a 9-week programme aiming to reduce harsh parenting and maltreatment and improve positive parenting practices; (2) Dialogic book-sharing (DBS), an 8-week programme aiming to promote parental sensitivity and improve child cognitive development and social understanding. Of the 123 mothers randomly allocated to the ACT programme, 64.2% (n = 79) completed the course, and of 124 mothers allocated to DBS, 76.6% (n = 95) completed the course. After the interventions, mothers were very positive about the experience of both programmes but highlighted practical difficulties in attending. In adjusted regression analyses, only two variables significantly predicted ACT course completion (maternal age and distance between the intervention site and household); no significant predictor was found for DBS attendance. We conclude that although high completion rates are possible, there are important challenges to engaging parents of young children in training programmes, and practical difficulties occurring during training courses may be more important for attendance than baseline participant characteristics.
Rafaela Costa Martins, Adriana Kramer Fiala Machado, Yulia Shenderovich et al.
This study focused on disaster preparedness education in Tokyo and examined an effective form of education to help prevent violence against children under the age of 18 years when large-scale natural disasters occur.Based on the analysis results, this study proposes that it is important to not only promote the creation of safe evacuation centers according to the idea of crime opportunity theory, but to also promote disaster preparedness education for children that emphasizes independence and activism. Keywords: disaster
A linear growth condition called stunting is brought on by frequent illnesses and poor nutrition. The Nurturing Care Framework, which prioritizes health care, proper nutrition, responsive caregiving, early learning opportunities, and safety and security, is the basis for prevention activities. The purpose of this study was to examine the connection between stunting in toddlers in the Pagambiran Padang Community Health Center region and parental risk factors based on the Nurturing Care Framework. The study was carried out between June 2024 and January 2025 using an analytical cross-sectional design. 214 children between the ages of 24 and 59 months were selected by stratified random sampling and basic random sampling. A questionnaire was used to gather the data, and univariate analysis, bivariate analysis using chi square, and multivariate analysis using multiple logistic regression with the backward technique were all used to examine the results. Stunting was present in 43.9% of people. 55.1 percent of parenting styles were classified as subpar according to the Nurturing Care Framework. Stunting was substantially correlated with safety and security, proper nutrition, and health care, according to multivariate data. The most important factor was enough nutrition. In accordance with the Nurturing Care Framework, the study suggests interdisciplinary cooperation to address nutritional issues, improve basic health services, track children's growth and development, and foster a healthy environment.
This scoping review of the literature explores the interlinkages between two pressing crises: violence against children (VAC) and climate change (CC) together with environmental degradation (ED). Only recently have research and policy begun to shine a light on the magnifying effect of CC on children’s exposure to violence, exploitation, and abuse, with the role of ED remaining under-explored. To spur academic and political movement in this area, our research aims to help establish the magnitude, direction, and pathways of the relationship between CC, ED, and VAC. We showcase the complexity of that relationship and illustrate, in the form of case studies, why context-specific approaches and more research are needed. Doing so, we cover five thematic areas: 1) Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction, 2) Gender, 3) Im/mobility, 4) Child Labour and 5) Health. Taking all five thematic areas together, structural violence against children emerged as a cross-cutting theme, creating and reinforcing the conditions for multiple forms of VAC in the context of CC and ED.
Simone Datzberger, Lottie Howard‐Merrill, Steven Kator Iorfa et al.
Introduction. One of the main challenges for early childhood is to provide adequate care to reduce inequalities and promote an early childhood development (ECD). The objective of this study was to describe the relationship between the care provided to children aged 3 and 4 years according to the nurturing care (NC) framework and their ECD levels in Argentina, considering the region and wealth quintiles. Population and methods. This was an observational, cross-sectional analytical study based on data from the National Survey of Children and Adolescents (MICS) of Argentina 2019-2020. A total of 11 NC indicators were selected; the level of ECD was estimated using the Early Childhood Development Index (ECDI) for a descriptive, statistical analysis. Results. In 2638 children aged 3 and 4 years assessed, the average access to care indicators was 79.1%; access was high for 7 indicators (between 84.2% and 97.9%) and middle for 4 indicators (between 46.9% and 65.1%); the highest and lowest frequency corresponded to having a birth certificate (97.9%) and health insurance coverage (46.9%), respectively. Adequate ECDI levels were observed in 87.9%. Results show differences by wealth quintile and region. Conclusions. The results evidence inequalities in terms of access to care and an adequate ECD of children aged 3 and 4 years from urban areas of Argentina, depending on the region where they live and their household wealth level.
María E Herrera Vegas, María Elisa Zapata, María Celeste Nessier et al.
This paper tried to know the different forms of violence against children during the Corona pandemic in Bangladesh from 2020 to mid-2021. As we have already experienced this catastrophic and lives losing pandemic situation across the world wherein the people of Bangladesh have been uniquely facing this live losing situation since 2020. World Health Organization has warned people to adopt different precautionary measures like 20-second hand washing, wearing a mask, maintaining physical and social distance, isolation, quarantine, taking immediate treatment, and vaccination. The real situation is that many countries have failed to take these measures and lost a huge number of lives. In spite of those situations, many developed countries have taken precautionary measures to prevent mass transmission of the Covid-19 virus. But unfortunately, many socio-economic problems like violence against children and women have been aroused during this pandemic situation while governments have given more concentration on Covid-19 prevention, e.g., isolation, quarantine, awareness of social measures, and vaccination. However, this paper found that various types of violence have increased during this pandemic situation, such as domestic violence against children, movement of the children, and domestic corporal violence. Moreover, this paper found weaknesses in the existing legal protections for children to prevent violence against children.
The early years in a child’s life are ‘critical’ as synaptic connections in the brain form and mature in this period. A child’s potential for development becomes irreversibly reduced if these early years are not enriched in a stimulating physical and psychosocial environment. Elucidating the underlying technical scientific concepts related to brain development to lay persons is a challenge specially in low-and-middle-income countries like India with limited literacy and/or ignorance. If these technical concepts are to be taken to the last person, across the last mile then simple, effective, acceptable solutions need to be metamorphosed for the local context considering the cultural, social and economic constraints. Brain wiring game is a participatory activity that helps to sensitize the audience about the ‘sculpting’ role of experiences on synapse formation and brain development during the early years. It evolved in 2018, during the preparatory phase of a field implementation research for empowering caregivers on Nurturing care being implemented in 4 districts of Maharashtra, India. Since then, it has been played with more than 200,000 individuals representing an entire spectrum from rural, urban and tribal areas, irrespective of their literacy status or socio-economic background. It has been played in a variety of settings ranging from classroom training sessions, field training sessions, mothers’ meetings at village level, Palak melawa (Community fair for Parents), sensitization meetings and community-based events. The participants who have been sensitized through this include parents, other caregivers, frontline health workers, para-medical staff, village council representatives and health professionals.
Abhishek Raut, Pranali Kothekar, Subodh Gupta et al.
Cases of violence against children in the modern era are currently very common. Cases of violence against children are committed by adults. Law enforcement for someone who is confronted needs to be done for the sake of upholding the law. An action committed against violence against children has a cause which is the background to why the action was carried out. This is where the important role of criminology is in knowing why someone commits a crime and how to overcome the crime problem. The role of the family and society is very important to monitor violence against children.
= 34.1 months; 48.5% girls) and examine how parental distress and beliefs predict investments in learning at home and how these, in turn, predict children's development across multiple domains. We examine these associations separately for infants/toddlers (0-35 months) and preschool-aged children (36-72 months), for whom enrollment in preprimary school is also included as an additional form of parent investment. Results showed different patterns of associations between the two age groups. Specifically, for infants and toddlers, parental distress and beliefs did not predict parent investments or child outcomes, but both access to learning materials and cognitive stimulation at home positively predicted child development in every domain. For preschool-aged children, parental beliefs positively predicted hours in preschool, and parental distress negatively predicted the availability of learning materials and cognitive stimulation at home; these three forms of parent investments each positively predicted children's outcomes across all developmental domains. Collectively, these findings deepen our understanding of parent factors that shape children's formal and informal learning experiences and point to several important areas for future research to more fully understand early childhood development in low-resource contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
Noelle M. Suntheimer, Soo Gyeong Ju, Dana Charles McCoy et al.
