Family Risk Factors
Parental stress combined with poor coping skills often leads to this form of maltreatment
What is neglect?
Crosson-Tower notes that children in neighborhoods with high rates of this issue face increased exposure to unsafe adults.
What is community violence?
Crosson-Tower says families without access to this type of care often miss early developmental red flags.
What is medical care?
Crosson-Tower defines this as the most common form of abuse in the U.S.
What is neglect?
Crosson-Tower says many abused children struggle with this area of school functioning.
What is academic performance?
Parents with this childhood history are significantly more likely to abuse their own children
What is a history of childhood abuse?
The lack of childcare resources increases neglect.
What is accessible childcare?
Child Welfare Information highlights these programs as protective factors for high-risk parents.
What are parenting support-education programs?
CDC research shows this type of abuse is strongly associated with long-term PTSD.
What is sexual abuse?
Children exposed to chronic trauma are at higher risk of these lifelong health issues.
What are cardiovascular health problems?
What is parental mental illness?
This living condition, often tied to instability, raises the risk of all forms of maltreatment.
What is housing insecurity and homelessness?
The World Health Organization identifies this basic need, when unmet, as a direct predictor of physical neglect.
What is food security?
The World Health Organization explains that cultures that normalize toughness increase this type of abuse.
What is physical abuse?
Child abuse is linked to increased rates of this harmful coping behavior.
What is substance misuse/addiction?
This has been identified as the economic factor as a major driver of physical abuse.
What is chronic finacial stess and poverty?
Communities that normalize this form of punishment see higher rates of physical abuse.
What is corporal punishment?
The CDC notes this major stressor, often linked to job loss, increases emotional abuse and neglect.
What is unemployment & financial strain?
Constant criticism, humiliation, and rejection fall under this maltreatment category.
What is emotional/psychological abuse?
The CDC reports that survivors of maltreatment show high rates of this disorder in adulthood.
What is depression?
There is an emphasis that parents who lack this key developmental capacity often respond harshly to normal child behavior.
What is emotional regulation?
Communities lacking cohesion and collective support increase this general category of risk.
When families lack this type of relational resource, children become more vulnerable to maltreatment.
What is social support & secure attachment relationships?
NIH measured the lifetime economic burden of this broad category at over $120 billion annually.
What is overall child maltreatment?
Chronic abuse alters this biological system, affecting stress regulation across life.
What is the HPA axis/brain stress system?