◎ contents 1. Introduction 2. Child abuse and cultural values: the case of new guinea 3. Child abuse and neglect in sub-saharan Africa 4. The socioeconomic context of child abuse and neglect in native south America 5. Child rearing and social structurein rural India : toward a cross-cultural definition of child abuse and neglect 6. Socioeconomic and psycho-cultural contexts of child abuse and neglect in turkey 7. Child abandonment and infanticide : a Japanese case 8. Child abuse in Taiwan 9. "Very few cases":child abuse and neglect in the people's republic of China 10. Child rearing and child abuse : the polynesian context 11. Conclusions