Poor/ Dysfunctional Parenting and Child maltreatment: A Review

Abstract

This paper intended to distinguish between poor parenting and child maltreatment to aware child welfare and public health policy makers of the need for differentiated responses. This paper reviews the literature on child maltreatment with respect to child outcomes, prevention and intervention and implication for policy. Child maltreatment which includes both child abuse and child neglect is a major problem throughout the world. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment and the present study is an effort to understand the child maltreatment and poor parenting and also takes into consideration the consequences and preventive measures of child maltreatment. This paper focuses on dysfunctional parenting style as an important component in dealing with child maltreatment and how poor parenting and its correlates are directly related with child’s mental stability and personality makeup. The data in this paper has been gathered by carrying out an extensive scrutiny of research work carried so far in this area. This paper broadens our vision as how poor parenting can be a very bad aspect of child maltreatment and how good parenting contributes to prevent child maltreatment