Community contextual effects on at‐risk mothers' engagement in Georgia's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting programme

Junhan Cho, Dayoung Bae, Darcey D. Terris, Rachael E. Glisson, Anita Brown - Child & Family Social Work

The current study examined family and community factors related to home visiting programme engagement in a sample of 1,024 mothers (primary caregivers, mean age 22.89 years) who participated in family support programmes funded through the US state of Georgia's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting programme.

Establishing the international prevalence of self-reported child maltreatment: a systematic review by maltreatment type and gender

Gwenllian Moody, Rebecca Cannings-John, Kerenza Hood, Alison Kemp and Michael Robling - BMC Public Health

This systematic review aims to review studies using self-report maltreatment to capture child maltreatment prevalence rates worldwide.

Multiple Factors Associated With Child Abuse Perpetration: A Nationwide Population-Based Retrospective Study

Cheng-Chen Chang, Ming-Hong Hsieh, Jeng-Yuan Chiou, Hsiang-Hsiung Huang, Po-Chung Ju, Jong-Yi Wang - Journal of Interpersonal Violence

This study compared the risk difference and further investigated the association between the category of mental disorders and child abuse perpetration in Taiwan.

Expanding the Basics: Mapping the Gaps between Expert, Decision-Maker and Public Understandings of Early Childhood Development in Kenya

Eric Lindland, Teresa Mwoma, George Evans Owino, Mariah Ngutu, Lynette Okeng’o, Damaris Nelima - FrameWorks Institute

This report considers a set of key overlaps and gaps in understanding of children’s early development and perception among experts, the Kenyan public, and people who work and make decisions in the early childhood development (ECD) sector in Kenya.

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