Vulnerability Factors
Definition
Individual, family, or community characteristics statistically associated with a higher probability of harm to, or offending by, a child; cumulative and probabilistic rather than deterministic.
Related terms
- Child Abandonment
- The act of a parent or guardian permanently leaving a child without arranging for their care, treated in most jurisdictions as grounds...
- Child in Need of Care and Protection
- A child who has committed no offence but is abandoned, missing, abused, exploited, trafficked, or otherwise without a fit and willing caregiver,...
- Child Trafficking
- The recruitment, transport, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of a child for exploitation, including labour, sexual exploitation, or forced marriage, which does not...
- Parens Patriae
- A common-law doctrine under which the state acts as an ultimate guardian of persons who cannot fully protect their own legal interests,...
- Protective Custody
- The temporary removal and placement of a child in state or state-approved care, ordered to secure the child's immediate safety while their...
Explained in these topics
- Child Vulnerability and Need of Care and Protection (Unit IX)Individual, family, and community level conditions, such as caregiver substance misuse or concentrated poverty, that raise the statistical likelihood of harm t...
- Children in Need of Care and Protection, and Youth Vulnerability