"This overview of the evidence suggests a causal relationship between non-sexual child maltreatment and a range of mental disorders, drug use, suicide attempts, sexually transmitted infections, and risky sexual behaviour. All forms of child maltreatment should be considered important risks to health with a sizeable impact on major contributors to the burden of disease in all parts of the world. The awareness of the serious long-term consequences of child maltreatment should encourage better identification of those at risk and the development of effective interventions to protect children from violence."
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001349
Published in the November 2012 Issue of PLOS Medicine
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