Synonyms for child abuse
child abuse

Princeton's WordNet

1. child abusenoun

   the physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children

Matched Categories

1. • Maltreatment

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:4.7 / 3 votes

1. child abuse

   Synonyms:
   Abused child syndrome, Ambroise Tardieu syndrome, baby battering, battered babe syndrome, battered child syndrome, battered infant syndrome, Caffey syndrome, Caffey-Kempe syndrome, child battering, maltreatment syndrome of children, parent-infant traumatic stress syndrome, Silverman syndrome, Trauma X

2. child abuse

   Synonyms:
   Caffey-Kempe syndrome

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1. Jesse Helton:

   What we know is this impacts child abuse and neglect permeates all areas of our society. It impacts the community, schools, churches and it affects hospitals, and in this case, emergency departments, too, and the departments need to know how to properly care for kids in these circumstances and how to collect evidence.

2. Judge Mindy Glazer:

   Ma’am, you were arrested for burglary with an assault or battery, strong armed robbery with an aggravated battery and child abuse. I will appoint the public defender’s office for you.

3. Ken Paxton:

   It is shocking and sad that Joe Biden would champion cruel forms of child abuse such as genital mutilation through forced so-called sex-change operations and the prescription of dangerous puberty blockers, i will always defend the children of Texas from these inhumane procedures.

4. The BSA:

   We care deeply about all victims of child abuse and sincerely apologize to anyone who was harmed during their time in Scouting, we are outraged that there have been times when individuals took advantage of our program to abuse innocent children. We believe victims, we support them, we pay for counseling by a provider of their choice and we encourage them to come forward. It is the Boy Scouts of America( BSA) policy that all incidents of suspected abuse are reported to law enforcement.

5. Church Elder L. Whitney Clayton:

   We feel like there is really no other organization that we know of -- a church or something like a church -- that does as much as we do, we have a zero tolerance policy or position with respect to child abuse, and we train our people, we teach our people, we work with leaders, we provide materials online and in hard copy.