Worldwide, many children suffer from abuse, often with numerous serious lifelong consequences. Unfortunately, child abuse remains undiscovered in 90% of cases. 1 In the Netherlands, about 90,000-127,000 children aged 0-17 years (i.e. 3% of all children) are victims of child abuse, with at least 17 child fatalities a year. 2 Prevention and early detection of child abuse have high priority in Dutch government policy.An important tool is the national guideline on child abuse. 3 It presents a five-step guide, from obtaining more information and documentation to consulting the Dutch Child Abuse Counselling and Reporting Centre (CACRC), discussing the matter with the parents or caregivers, consulting with a colleague and reporting it to
The present publication is the result of an initiative of the Werkgemeenschap Oceanië (Netherlands Society for Oceanic Studies), whose members are mainly social scientists with acadsmic degrees either from a Dutch university or from a comparable institution abroad and with Oceania as their special field of interest and object of study and research. The areas and population groups covered by the Werkgemeenschap are the Melanesian islands, including New Guinea, Polynesia, including the Maori of New Zealand, Micronesia, and the Australian Aborigines. The disciplines represented in the Society are anthropology, linguistics and demography.1 At a general meeting held in April 1982 a suggestion by one of the members to review the work done by Dutch Oceanists since the Second World War met with genera1 approval. It was then decided that this review should als0 include publications by foreign researchers residing in The Netherlands some time in the course of their scientific activities. In the history of Dutch research on Oceania after World War I1 two phases can be distinguished.
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