Abstract
Article history: Received October 9, 2012 Received in revised format 29 November 2012 Accepted 27 December 2012 Available online January 4 2013 Child abuse is one of the most important issues in any society and any action to detect influencing factors could help take possible actions on its prevention. In this paper, we present an empirical study to find the impact of family income, occupation, size, age, education and drug addiction on growth of child abuse. The study uses a sample of 450 female students who were enrolled on guided schools in city of Esfahan, Iran. The study chooses 5 classes and in each school and 10 students are randomly selected. A questionnaire is designed and distributed among the sample people, which is categorized in four groups of physical, sexual, emotional and neglect child abuse. The results are analyzed using different tests including Pearson correlation test, Chi-Square, etc. to test different hypotheses. The results of our survey indicate that there are some meaningful relationships between different family characteristics including age, occupation, family size, educational background, and drug-addiction and child abuse. However, our survey does not provide any evidence to believe there is any relationship between home status and child abuse risk. © 2013 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Highlights
Today, despite the cultural and scientific advances, the number of reports of injuries and social damage that comes to children is increasing
The study uses a sample of 450 female students who were enrolled on guided schools in city of Esfahan, Iran
We have presented an empirical investigation to find the impact of family income, occupation, size, age, education and drug addiction on growth of child abuse
Summary
Despite the cultural and scientific advances, the number of reports of injuries and social damage that comes to children is increasing. The study revealed child, blocks of parent, and family characteristics were more important predictors of violence towards children than was wife abuse. Milner et al (2010) investigated whether trauma symptoms could act as mediator on the relationship between a childhood history of child physical abuse (CPA) and adult CPA risk, and whether any such mediation was the same for women and men. They reported that there was a strong relationship between a childhood history of CPA and adult CPA risk. The paper ends with concluding remarks to summarize the contribution of the paper
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