How does Child Maltreatment impact a child’s development? Child Maltreatment is a devastating problem in contemporary society that affects all sectors of the population. Every child has the right to a healthy life free from violence, though each year millions of children around the world fall victims to child maltreatment (McNichol & Tash, 2001). Subsequently, child maltreatment is a huge global problem with a serious impact on the victims’ physical and mental health, wellbeing and development throughout their lives – and, by extension on their families, wider communities and society. Understanding the relationship between child maltreatment and the developmental effects it causes is important because it is not only necessary in providing