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Offering immediate help to children and families is extremely important. This is especially the case when the child's welfare is in jeopardy as it is in cases of abuse and neglect. However, in order to better understand what the child abuse is, its incidence, consequences, risk factors, efficient treatment and how it can be prevented, it is important to obtain scientific evidence giving answers to these questions, or to conduct research.
Therefore, the Team for scientific research exists within the Center for child protection. The Team's objective is to scientifically research various aspects of abuse and neglect of children and inform the public about research results.
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SCIENCE & RESEARCH
A parent places a child in the middle when the child is asked to be a carrier of adult messages, asked to keep secrets, or asked to serve as a spy in the other household. When a parent trashes the other parent to the child, half of that child is being trashed also. Such issues take their toll on a child's self-esteem and sense of well-being. Any movement along the continuum from conflict to cooperation, no matter how small, is a move to benefit the child.
