Child Abuse and Neglect inChina: What the Papers Say

Hesketh, Thérèse; Lynch, Margaret A.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-0852(199612)5:5<346::aid-car291>3.0.co;2-a

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“…In addition, the current study strengthens previous studies, which have indicated that the media tends to cover child maltreatment incidents in ways that emphasise dominant social stereotypes. For example, the coverage gives over‐representation to more extreme and bizarre incidents of maltreatment (McDevitt, ), and to cases in which the abuser is a stranger (Atmore, ; Cheit, ; Hesketh and Lynch, ; Kitzinger, ; Kitzinger and Skidmore, ) or someone outside the family (Mejia et al, ). These representations are not consistent with systematic reviews of the literature on child maltreatment.…”

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“…Additional studies exploring child maltreatment media coverage indicate that the media tends to cover child maltreatment incidents in ways that emphasise dominant social stereotypes; over‐representation seems to be given to more extreme and bizarre incidents of abuse (Kitzinger and Skidmore, ; McDevitt, ), or cases in which the offender is a stranger (Atmore, ; Cheit, ; Hesketh and Lynch, ; Kitzinger, ; Kitzinger and Skidmore, ), demonstrating that much of the public coverage of CSA is ‘case‐based’ and episodic. Such showcasing may give the impression that CSA consists of isolated instances that happen in a vacuum, as if to suggest that they are not the outcome of broader social conditions.…”

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Child Maltreatment in the Media: Analyses of Media Coverage and Reader Comments on Child Maltreatment in Israel

2019

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The media plays a significant role in our lives and constitutes a very powerful socialising agent with the potential to influence public opinion and policymakers regarding social issues, such as child maltreatment. The present study was designed to explore how child maltreatment is portrayed in the media and to examine public perception regarding this phenomenon, as expressed by reader comments. Articles about child maltreatment published on the five official news websites in Israel were assessed using descriptive and qualitative analysis. It was found that most of the coverage of child maltreatment could be characterised as episodic. The majority of news articles failed to provide information regarding the potential risk/causal factors and often missed opportunities to discuss solutions to maltreatment. Of the stakeholders presented in the articles, only rarely could the voices of child victims or their families be heard, whereas the presence of legal professionals was frequent. A high frequency of reader comments referred to rage and despair. The results demonstrate the need to develop various practices in order to narrow the gaps between findings and statistics about child maltreatment and the way in which the phenomenon is currently portrayed in the media, as such portrayals exert an impact on both public perceptions and policymakers' attitudes. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Key Practitioner Messages The media is a significant tool with the potential to influence public opinion and policymakers regarding social issues. The study indicates that media coverage of child maltreatment often fails to present it as an extensive social problem and does not discuss possible solutions and prevention strategies for this phenomenon. Practitioners within the field of child maltreatment should be provided with training in working with the media. Joint collaboration between practitioners, the media and researchers is needed in order to narrow the gap between the worrisome figures regarding this phenomenon and its non‐proportional representation in the media.

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Child Maltreatment in the Media: Analyses of Media Coverage and Reader Comments on Child Maltreatment in Israel

2019

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“…Although there are some voices urging for attention to be paid to violence against children in the family (Bu 2003), the problem has not yet received an active response. Literature related to child abuse or maltreatment in China is even more scarce (Hesketh & Lynch 1996; Hesketh et al . 2000), and existing studies are mainly on the medical consequences of maltreatment on children.…”

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Child abuse in China: a yet-to-be-acknowledged 'social problem' in the Chinese Mainland

Qiao

Chan

2005

Child Fam Soc Work

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Child abuse or child maltreatment has been a worldwide concern. In China, however, it receives scant attention from both academic communities and government. Chinese society has little awareness of child abuse as it is known in the West and there are apparently different conceptions and treatments of the problem. This paper attempts to delineate how the problem is now understood and treated in Mainland China. The reasons why child abuse has not yet been recognized as a social problem worthy of public concern in China are explored. It is argued that as a signatory of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child there is a need for the Chinese government, the academic community and professionals to reflect on their conception and treatment of child abuse so as to achieve more effective child protection for all children who are victims of child abuse.

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“…In China, there have been a small number of studies of child abuse involving direct surveys with children, adults retrospectively, or examining perspectives from newspapers, child health professionals and mothers experiencing domestic violence (Chen, 2008;Hesketh et al, 2000;Hesketh and Lynch, 1996;Kim et al, 2000;Liu and Chan, 1999;Luo et al, 2008). Of particular relevance here, Liu and Zhang (2002), in a retrospective study of violence while growing up, with a sample of married people, found 72 per cent reported having been beaten by parents.…”

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Girls' and boys' experiences and perceptions of parental discipline and punishment while growing up in China and England

Hester

Lan

2009

Child Abuse Review

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This article draws on comparative research involving an exploratory and retrospective survey of 498 students in China and 481 in England and follow‐up interviews, focusing on their experiences of physical punishment and disciplinary behaviour from mothers and fathers ‘while growing up’, including how they felt about their experiences and views concerning what might be perceived as ‘acceptable’ or ‘unacceptable’ punishments. The emphasis is on the Chinese findings, although the English findings are referred to for comparison and debate. As children, the Chinese students who were surveyed experienced similar types and levels of punishment, although with significant gendered differences echoing traditional Chinese perceptions of ‘passive’ female and ‘active’ male. In a similar vein, there also appeared to be greater expectations in relation to educational achievement for boys in China. While most of the Chinese respondents thought the use of physical punishment acceptable for disciplining children, there were indications that this was being questioned and that some wanted change. The UK students, compared to the Chinese, reported lower levels of physical punishment, although the use of punishment to curtail boys' behaviour was in some respects similar. Use of physical punishment was deemed less acceptable by the UK respondents. Copyright. © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Child Abuse and Neglect inChina: What the Papers Say

Cited by 10 publications

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Child Maltreatment in the Media: Analyses of Media Coverage and Reader Comments on Child Maltreatment in Israel

Child Maltreatment in the Media: Analyses of Media Coverage and Reader Comments on Child Maltreatment in Israel

Child abuse in China: a yet-to-be-acknowledged 'social problem' in the Chinese Mainland

Girls' and boys' experiences and perceptions of parental discipline and punishment while growing up in China and England

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