The Perfect Storm: Hidden Risk of Child Maltreatment During the Covid-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The Covid-19 pandemic upended the country, with enormous economic and social shifts. Given the increased contact from families living in virtual confinement coupled with massive economic disarray, the Covid-19 pandemic may have created the ideal conditions to witness a rise in children's experience of abuse and neglect. Yet such a rise will be difficult to calculate given the drop in official mechanisms to track its incidence. The current investigation utilized two studies conducted early in the pandemic to evaluate maltreatment risk. In the first cross-sectional study, parents (n = 405) reported increased physical and verbal conflict and neglect which were associated with their perceived stress and loneliness. In the second study, parents (n = 106) enrolled in a longi

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8093016 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature