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mistreatment of a child by a parent or guardian, including neglect, beating, and sexual molestation.

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1970–75

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child abuse

—n
	See also nonaccidental injury physical, sexual, or emotional ill-treatment or neglect of a child, esp by those responsible for its welfare

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child abuse

by 1963, from child + abuse (n.).

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"The germ of violence is laid bare in the child abuser by the sheer accident of his individual experience ... in a word, to a greater degree than we like to admit, we are all potential child abusers."

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