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Introduction
Child abuse has worldwide recognition as a crime against children. The legal and moral issues surrounding it will vary according to culturally accepted practices, but the underlying abhorrence of crimes against children will prevail. This paper will present a review of the literature on the topic of child abuse and the surrounding issues and implications for practice of the school nurse. Child abuse will be defined and background information and statistics will be provided. Legal issues will be presented as will their implications. The role of the school nurse will be presented as will the impact of poverty. Finally a summary of the literature will be provided.
Definition and Background Information
Lewis and Bear (2002) provide us with the following definition: "Child abuse is any situation in which a child suffers mistreatment or serious injury by other than accidental means. Child abuse encompasses physical, emotional, and sexual harm and neglect. The abuser can......

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