Robert A.C. Bilo • Arnold P. Oranje
Tor Shwayder • Christopher J. Hobbs
2013
If you google the term “child abuse,” you will get over 80 million hits in less than 1 s. If you search in “PubMed,” you will fi nd more than 30,000 hits in the medical literature. Child abuse has many appearances and is often dif fi cult to recognize by professionals like physicians and police despite the availability of an enormous amount of professional literature. We are all in shock when we hear about child abuse. We are willing to accept the existence of child abuse in our professional lives, but in our private lives we still assume that it is rare and does not exist in our neighborhoods.