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Hello and good afternoon.
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Today we are looking at a psychology problem that acts for the different risk factors that are related to potential situations of child maltreatment.
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And before we get into the prompts below, we must first understand exactly what child maltreatment is.
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Child maltreatment is the abuse or neglect of a child under the age of 18 years old.
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And this can stem for a number of different reasons in the parent.
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A very common reason is one financial problems.
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This could cause the parent to lash out as misguided anger.
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The second one could be misuse of alcohol.
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Or abuse, or substance abuse.
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This could get the parent to not be in the right state of mind and could want to hurt the child.
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And number three is just simply difficulty bonding with the newborn.
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All of these factors and more could be reasons for child maltreatment in the family...