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{"title":"Alleged Histories of Child Maltreatment in Buddhist Monasteries in Sri Lanka as Revealed by Adult Survivors","authors":"Chandana Namal Rathnayake","doi":"10.1002/car.70167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.70167","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Sri Lanka, there are more than 12,000 Buddhist monasteries where children as young as 5, mainly from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, are ordained with the expectation of becoming life-long monks. Although child ordination is identical to the placement of a child in alternative care, it is carried out entirely on the discretion of the parents and the abbot of the monastery, without any oversight from the safeguarding authority. Despite regular media reports of incidents of child abuse in monasteries, risks of child abuse associated with child ordination seem to be overlooked possibly due to the cultural deference towards this practice and the monastery as an institution. Except occasional opinion pieces published in local newspapers, no systematic academic research centring survivors have been conducted so far. Perhaps for the first time in this context, this article presents stories of child abuse in the Buddhist Monastery in Sri Lanka. It is based on semistructured interviews with four former monks who survived childhood abuse in monasteries. Interviews were analysed using thematic analysis to illustrate several social and institutional factors that created a conducive environment for child abuse. This article contributes to the limited literature on male survivors of childhood abuse in South Asia.</p>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/car.70167","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Role of Schools in Child Protection and Preventing Child Marriage in Bangladesh","authors":"M. Rezaul Islam","doi":"10.1002/car.70168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.70168","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examined the role of secondary schools and madrasahs in child protection (CP) and preventing child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) in Tazmuddin Upazila, Bhola District, Bangladesh. Using qualitative methods, including focus group discussions with students and key informant interviews with teachers, parents and officials, the study found that although students were aware of CEFM, their understanding of its consequences was limited. Teacher discussions on CEFM focused primarily on legal aspects, and parents and community members were seen as key actors in prevention efforts. Students expressed a willingness to report CEFM cases, and parents emphasized the need for schools to raise awareness and ensure accurate birth registration. The findings highlight the need for better CEFM education in schools and the involvement of various stakeholders in prevention efforts, providing insights for CP and education experts globally.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Alabama Simulated Investigations for MDTs (SIM) Model: An Innovative Approach to Multidisciplinary Team Coordination","authors":"Lindamarie Olson,&nbsp;Maribeth Bowman,&nbsp;Monica Blackmon,&nbsp;Brad Jordan,&nbsp;Ahzshaka Johnson,&nbsp;Uche L. Nwatu","doi":"10.1002/car.70169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.70169","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are central to the mission and vision of children's advocacy centers (CACs), facilitating consistent communication and coordination among stakeholders throughout the child abuse investigation process. This study's objective was to discuss the development of a simulation-based training (SBT) model for MDTs and examine quantitative and qualitative evaluation data from SBT participants. The Alabama Network of Children's Advocacy Centers (ANCAC) saw the unique training needs of their MDTs and developed an interactive simulation training model, incorporating input from 23 local MDT stakeholder agencies. This study describes the development, implementation and evaluation of the SBT. Simulation developers collected survey data, and University of Alabama researchers analysed the deidentified responses. Open-ended survey responses were analysed using conventional content analysis, with responses inductively coded into categories and frequencies calculated to indicate the relative prevalence of each theme. One hundred ten participants responded to the survey following their participation in an SBT. Overall, participants ranked the overall rating of the training with a mean score of 4.35 out of 5, with 1 being poor and 5 being outstanding. Participants most consistently valued the simulation and hands-on components of the training, identified cross-agency role learning and interagency collaboration as primary learning outcomes and recommended reducing didactic content in favor of expanded and more complex experiential activities. Implications for future research and recommendations for CACs on how to adopt a SBT model that best fits their community's needs are provided.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who Is Responsible for the Child? Institutional Betrayal and the Responsibilisation of Children, Families and Frontline Professionals in Turkey","authors":"Arzu Açar,&nbsp;Mustafa F. Özbilgin","doi":"10.1002/car.70166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.70166","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Child welfare and safety depend on a chain of actors: parents and carers, families, communities, frontline professionals and the state. When responsibility is unevenly distributed across this chain, accountability for children erodes even where formal legal protection remains. In Turkey, this erosion is acute: the country has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child but operates a thin welfare architecture in which state obligations are routinely discharged downward This paper examines how this downward transfer of responsibility operates in Turkey. Drawing on institutional betrayal theory (Smith and Freyd 2014) and Beck's (1992) concept of organised irresponsibility, we identify three mechanisms by which welfare for children is hollowed out without any single institution being held to account: responsibilisation of the child, responsibilisation of the family and responsibilisation of the frontline professional. This is a conceptually driven case analysis. We examined Turkish official statistics (TÜİK 2023, 2024), United Nations instruments and indices (UNCRC, UNICEF Türkiye, UNDP), reports by Turkish civil society organisations and unions (Çocuk Vakfı, Sosyal-İş Sendikası, IMDAT, Türkiye Okul Yemeği Koalisyonu, TİHEK, TÜKD Antalya) and media-reported cases for the period 2014 to 2025. Sources were thematically coded against the three mechanisms. We identify three mechanisms through which responsibility for safeguarding is shifted away from institutions and redistributed onto those with the least power. Each mechanism transfers an obligation that legally and structurally belongs to the state onto an actor with less capacity to discharge it. The child is reframed as morally complicit in her own victimisation. The family is held accountable for managing structural risk that a retreating welfare state has stopped absorbing. The frontline professional is asked to compensate for thin institutional architecture without commensurate training, supervision or resourcing. The cumulative effect is institutional betrayal of those who depend on the system, sustained by an organised irresponsibility in which every actor can point to another, and no one is answerable. Re-institutionalising responsibility requires three corrections that map onto the three mechanisms: child protection frameworks that refuse to moralise victimisation; social policy that rebuilds the material conditions for family safeguarding; and sustained investment in the frontline workforce. The Turkish case speaks to international debates on safeguarding under welfare-state retrenchment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/car.70166","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148942033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Childhood Psychological Maltreatment, Psychological Resilience and Mental Well-Being: A Cross-Lagged Panel Model","authors":"Önder Baltacı,&nbsp;Ömer Faruk Akbulut","doi":"10.1002/car.70165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.70165","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Exposure to psychological maltreatment in childhood may place individuals at heightened risk for poorer mental well-being in young adults. However, research examining how this link unfolds over time is relatively scarce. This study examined the longitudinal associations among childhood psychological maltreatment, psychological resilience and mental well-being in Turkish young adults. A two-wave panel design with an approximately 6-month interval was used. Participants were 396 young adults in Türkiye (83.3% female) aged 18–29 years (M = 21.15, SD = 1.76). Participants completed self-report measures assessing childhood psychological maltreatment, psychological resilience and mental well-being. Cross-lagged panel analysis was conducted to test the hypothesised longitudinal mediation model while controlling for autoregressive effects. The results indicated that childhood psychological maltreatment at Time 1 significantly predicted lower psychological resilience at Time 2. In turn, psychological resilience at Time 1 significantly predicted higher mental well-being at Time 2. Model fit indices suggested an acceptable fit, and the results supported a partial longitudinal mediation effect of psychological resilience in the relationship between childhood psychological maltreatment and mental well-being. Overall, the findings suggest that childhood psychological maltreatment may undermine young adults' mental well-being both directly and indirectly by weakening resilience over time. Interventions that incorporate resilience-building strategies may be particularly beneficial for promoting mental well-being among individuals with histories of childhood psychological maltreatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/car.70165","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148849269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multiagency Safeguarding Panels for Extrafamilial Harm: Ethnicity, Gender and the Type of Harm Discussed","authors":"Jenny Lloyd","doi":"10.1002/car.70163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.70163","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Multiagency child exploitation (MACE) panels are increasingly used in the United Kingdom to manage cases of extrafamilial harm including child sexual exploitation and criminal exploitation. However, there is limited research on safeguarding panels for extrafamilial harm and who and what is the focus of this multiagency oversight. This quantitative study collected data from 17 social care departments across England and Wales who provided information on 131 children experiencing extrafamilial harm. Descriptive and statistical analysis was used to explore the ethnicity and gender of young people discussed at multiagency panels and the types of harm they were considered to be impacted by. The findings were that two thirds of ‘cases’ were about boys and a third about girls; two-thirds of cases of extrafamilial harm related to child criminal exploitation and a third of cases were about child sexual exploitation; double the number of ethnically minoritised young people were discussed at panels or had multiagency oversight in the sample than could be expected based on the local population; the type of harm young people were considered to be impacted by differed across gender and ethnicity. This article is the first to present individual ‘case’ analysis on which young people are discussed at panels. It contributes to a growing international literature on safeguarding system responses to adolescent safeguarding.</p>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/car.70163","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148811346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecological Predictors and Network Patterns of Cyberbullying Victimisation Among Chinese Adolescents: Integrating Machine Learning and Network Analysis","authors":"Kexin Xie,&nbsp;Chunkai Li","doi":"10.1002/car.70161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.70161","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Cyberbullying victimisation (CBV) is an important concern for adolescent well-being and child protection, yet its predictors are often examined separately across ecological domains. Guided by an expanded social-ecological perspective, this study integrated machine learning and network analysis to examine CBV among 2006 Chinese adolescents. Twenty-two predictors spanning individual, family, peer, school and digital-behavioural factors were included, and six supervised machine learning models were compared after hyperparameter tuning. Results showed that random forest achieved the best performance on the held-out test. SHAP analysis identified traditional bullying victimisation, social media addiction, risky internet behaviours, difficulties in emotion regulation and perceived school climate as the most salient predictors; cyberbullying aggression, gaming addiction, child neglect and inferiority also ranked highly. Network analysis showed that traditional bullying victimisation had the highest betweenness centrality, whereas coping self-efficacy had the highest strength centrality. These findings position CBV within adolescents' wider developmental and safeguarding ecology rather than as a problem confined to online behaviour. Effective prevention therefore requires an ecologically informed safeguarding response that integrates early identification of offline peer victimisation and digital risk with coordinated school-based protection, family support and the strengthening of adolescents' coping resources.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hazardous Child Labour and Wellbeing Inequality: Structural and Spatial Drivers in North-Western Bangladesh","authors":"Kamrunnahar Koli,&nbsp;Md. Pablu Parvez","doi":"10.1002/car.70159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.70159","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Hazardous child labour remains a major child protection and public health concern in low- and middle-income countries, where structural inequalities and weak institutional safeguards expose children to harmful work. This study examines the spatial and structural drivers of hazardous child labour and associated wellbeing inequalities in north-western Bangladesh. A place-based mixed-methods design was employed, combining household survey data (<i>N</i> = 480 households; 253 working children) with qualitative insights from focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and workplace observations conducted between April and July 2025 in Dinajpur Sadar (peri-urban) and Kaharole (rural). The findings reveal clear spatial variation in hazardous work, with rural children concentrated in agricultural labour and peri-urban children engaged in informal industrial and service activities. Socioeconomic vulnerability, including low parental education and livelihood insecurity, strongly shapes children's labour participation. Hazardous work is associated with multiple forms of wellbeing deprivation, including physical risks, psychological distress and educational disruption. Gendered patterns are also evident, with girls' labour often remaining hidden within domestic settings. Drawing on social reproduction, structural violence, and health geography perspectives, the study conceptualises hazardous work as a structurally produced and spatially differentiated child protection concern. The findings highlight the need for context-specific interventions that address structural inequality, strengthen child protection systems and respond to spatially uneven risks affecting children's safety and wellbeing.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148647741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decolonising Child Protection From Within: Survivor Knowledge as Embodied Epistemologies and Community Practice","authors":"Gabriele Carmelo Rosato","doi":"10.1002/car.70155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.70155","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article argues that experiential knowledge from child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors offers critical community-rooted expertise to transform child protection from within. Though not Indigenous in cultural or territorial terms, survivor knowledge shares key features with Indigenous epistemologies: It is embodied, relational, intergenerational and systematically marginalised by institutional frameworks. Drawing on ethnographic research with survivor-led mutual aid groups and trauma-informed practices in Italy, the study examines CSA survivors serving as frontline practitioners or experts by experience, whose dual positionality reveals tensions between institutional protocols and trauma realities. Findings reveal that survivor communities have developed collective, culturally embedded practices of care, spatial negotiation and narrative healing that challenge bureaucratic and punitive models of child protection. Positioning survivor knowledge as decolonial praxis, the paper expands the recognition of survivor knowledge as a legitimate source of expertise within child protection systems. It proposes concrete integration strategies: co-designing policies with survivor-practitioners, mandating lived-experience training and fostering horizontal accountability. By centring relationality and autonomy, this reorientation echoes calls to co-design child welfare with those most affected, ensuring protection evolves with those it serves across the life course.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148617182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The ‘Connecting Moment’: A Narrative Analysis of Late Awareness in Child Sexual Abuse Survivors","authors":"Vanesa Pastor-Cerezo,&nbsp;Alejandro Iborra Cuéllar","doi":"10.1002/car.70158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/car.70158","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Trauma introduces a significant fracture in narrative identity, often leaving child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors with fragmented memories that are disconnected from a coherent life story. This study explores the ‘connecting moment’: the precise biographical turning point when adults consciously conceptualise their childhood experience as abuse for the first time. Using a qualitative narrative analysis approach, in-depth interviews were conducted with nine adult survivors to examine the structure of this realisation. The findings reveal that this awareness is not a sudden memory recovery but a structured narrative process. The sequence begins with an external catalyst (such as media or somatic triggers) that disrupts previous silence. This is followed by an interpretative struggle characterised by confusion and dissociation, and a subsequent search for validation to anchor the reality of the event. Finally, this process culminates in biographical rewriting, where the survivor resignifies past symptoms and reconstructs their identity. The study concludes that the ‘connecting moment’ acts as a crucial mechanism for hermeneutic repair, transforming ineffable pain into a communicable narrative that facilitates trauma integration.</p>","PeriodicalId":47371,"journal":{"name":"Child Abuse Review","volume":"35 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/car.70158","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148616151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}