Child maltreatment is seen as specific acts of omission or commission that are judged by a mixture of community values and professional expertise to be inappropriate or damaging.
New parents around the world use similar-sounding familial kin terms, such as /ma/, /pa/, and /da/. Why?The linguistic theorist Jakobson (1971) once proposed the romantic view that parents adopt as names for themselves the sounds that infants initially produce.
