Example sentences for: maltreatment

How can you use “maltreatment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We promote compassionate, effective policies to protect children and prevent their maltreatment through our Legislative Advocacy.

  • However, educational neglect and emotional maltreatment have always been included in the incidence studies, and eliminating them from the picture would not eradicate the significant drop in the overall rate of CPS investigations from the NIS-2 to the NIS-3.

  • In fact, the percentages of children whose maltreatment was investigated decreased significantly in all categories except educational neglect--from 64 percent to 45 percent among physically abused children, from 75 percent to 44 percent among sexually abused children, from 57 percent to 35 percent among physically neglected children, and from 40 percent to 26 percent among children seriously injured by any maltreatment.

  • However, there are survey data (that Deborah Daro and I collect) and data on homicide that indicate strongly that it is very unlikely that there is any kind of major increase in the rate of child maltreatment in the country.

  • The other, Guess Inc., is about the worst, notorious for its maltreatment of its workers and its ruthlessness in business.


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