SINGAPORE — A spate of child abuse cases here in larger families has led to the question: Are parents more likely to ill-treat one particular child over their others? Experts interviewed by TODAY said the first-born or a step-child may be more at risk of abuse.
SINGAPORE — A spate of child abuse cases here in larger families has led to the question: Are parents more likely to ill-treat one particular child over their other children? Experts interviewed by TODAY said the first-born or a stepchild may be more at risk of abuse.
He and his wife had three other children — one son from their relationship and two other sons from the woman’s previous relationship.assaulted MSF said the increase in cases from 2020 to 2021 was mainly due to more referrals from its community partners, such as family service centres.WHY PARENTS MAY PICK ON ONE CHILD
Such instances are more likely to occur with the first child in the family or a stepchild as parents do not yet realise that their expectations of their child are unrealistic, said Dr Kit, who is from NIE's psychology and child and human development academic group A lack of affinity with one child, or greater affinity with their other children, was another reason why parents might abuse one child more than others, said psychologists and social workers.
There is also no strong evidence to show that parents with more children are more likely to commit abuse, said Dr Gerard Chung, an assistant professor of social work from the National University of Singapore. “For some parents, if the difficulties outstrip their resources and ability to cope with the vicissitudes of parenting and stepparenting, they may resort to the quickest and most expedient way they know to gain obedience, assert authority or reinstate power — through violence,” she said.
She said that in such cases, agencies conduct more frequent check-ins with families when there are risk factors that can impact parental capacities.
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