Following the 6th Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators (Montreal, 2017), this Special Issue of Child Indicators Research was compiled to advance an interdisciplinary understanding of the complexity of conceptualizations, determinants, consequences, and measurement of child neglect around the world and to highlight the need for reforms in child protection systems. The issue was guest edited by Mónica Ruiz-Casares, Carl Lacharité and Florence Martin. Read their editorial, Child Neglect Indicators: a Field in Critical Need of Development Globally, which introduces the special issue.
Articles in this issue include:
- Issues in Defining and Measuring Supervisory Neglect and Conceptualizing Prevention
- Understanding ‘Successful Practice/s’ with Parents with Learning Difficulties when there are Concerns about Child Neglect: the Contribution of Social Practice Theory
- Dominant Research on Child Neglect and Dialogic Practices: when the Voice of Families is Translated or Ignored
- Family Profiles in Child Neglect Cases Substantiated by Child Protection Services
- Perceptions of Neglect and Well-Being among Independent Child Migrants in Ghana
- (Re) Conceptualizing Neglect: Considering the Overrepresentation of Indigenous Children in Child Welfare Systems in Canada
- ‘Even though I Am Blind, I Am Still Human!’: the Neglect of Adolescents with Disabilities’ Human Rights in Conflict-Affected Contexts
- Psychometric Properties of a Self-Report Measure of Neglect during Mid-Adolescence
- Identifying and Responding to Child Neglect within Schools: Differing Perspectives and the Implications for Inter-Agency Practice
- The Urbanization Paradox: Parental Absence and Child Development in China - an Empirical Analysis Based on the China Family Panel Studies Survey