Definition of child abuse in US English:
child abuse
nounCHīld əˈbyo͞oztʃaɪld əˈbjuz
Physical maltreatment or sexual molestation of a child.
the campaign urges action over a sickening report on child abuse
Example sentencesExamples
- Domestic violence is often concurrent with child abuse, because violent men hit both wives and kids.
- What is known though is that reports of child abuse have skyrocketed.
- Within four years of publication, nearly every state had mandated that doctors report child abuse.
- Distressing events, such as child abuse and terrorism, are reported widely in the media.
- Each Family Centre is part of a social work team which deals with child protection and the prevention of child abuse.
- Surely this would give way to more problems that could range from child abuse to abandoned babies.
- It is too easy for a belief like this to support child abuse and sexual molestation.
- This teacher committed further acts of child abuse after his appointment and was later convicted.
- To understand child abuse we need, paradoxically, to think harder about the nature of childhood.
- It provokes a range of responses based on two radically different perspectives on the issue of child abuse.
- I got sick reading the news of the two foreigners arrested on sexual child abuse.
- The detention of children without a coherent rationale is institutional child abuse.
- He emerged from the courtroom shouting that he had played no part in child abuse.
- It is certainly a topic that audiences rarely warm to: films about child abuse have a hard time at the box office.
- The counsellor is duty-bound under California law to report any child abuse.
- Other causes taken up include road safety, child abuse and health education.
- There was a plea for cooperation between all departments in identifying child abuse.
- This is a controversial field and goes to the heart of recent public concerns over child abuse.
- The experts all agreed that corporal punishment that results in injury is child abuse.
- At the time many people did not see this as an issue of child abuse.