FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Reviewers -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Describing the Problem -- 3 Causality -- 4 Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect -- 5 The Child Welfare System -- 6 Interventions and Service Delivery Systems -- 7 Research Challenges and Infrastructure -- 8 Child Abuse and Neglect Policy -- 9 Recommendations -- Appendix A: Workshop Open Session Agendas -- Appendix B: Research Recommendations and Priorities from the 1993 National Research Council Report "Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect" -- Appendix C: Biosketches of Committee Members.