child abuse

Noun

Meaning

the physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

maltreatment child pornography statutory rape child sexual abuse child molester child labor child endangerment child molestation child prostitution child pornographer child pornographers child abusers child maltreatment child molesting child sex

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Antonyms

benefit attraction childcare child care

Hypernyms

abuse maltreatment ill-treatment ill-usage

Examples

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. Nick Bostrom

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian. Lynn Johnston

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse. Neal Barnard

The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it. Carl Sagan

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse. Joycelyn Elders

£60,000,000 I saw was being spaffed up the wall on some investigation into historic child abuse. What on earth is that going to do to protect the people now? Boris Johnson

Close letter words and terms

Chilcutt child child abandonment child abuser child abusers child actor