- Definition of what is meant by the term ‘maltreatment’.
- What is contamination and why is contamination an issue in the study of child maltreatment?
- Challenges and limitations of the study.
- How contamination has been traditionally addressed in child maltreatment studies and how this study has tried to do things differently.
- The implications of the findings.
- How contamination in child maltreatment research should be addressed in future research.
