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REVIEWING CHILD ABUSE POLICY IN AMERICA: A SOCIAL SERVICE APPROACH
Author(s) -
Nelson Barbara J.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1980.tb00954.x
Subject(s) - neglect , child abuse , social policy , service (business) , sexual abuse , social work , child sexual abuse , domestic violence , political science , value (mathematics) , psychological abuse , criminology , dependency (uml) , psychology , poison control , psychiatry , suicide prevention , medicine , business , law , medical emergency , engineering , systems engineering , marketing , machine learning , computer science
ABSTRACT For all the recent attention to the problems of child abuse and neglect, this specific policy area has rarely been examined as belonging to the more general area of social service policy. This article begins to remedy this omission. First, the article examines child abuse policy in terms of the conflicts of value faced in the formation of social service policy. Next, the relationship between child abuse and other recent social service issues responding to familial violence or childhood dependency is discussed. Here the article shows that governmental response to child abuse has been used to encourage governmental interest in adoption reform, sexual exploitation of children, domestic violence, and day care.