Grand Rounds opens the 5th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference hosted by the Children’s Bioethics Centre. The Theme for the conference is “Who’s listening to me? Who’s speaking speaking for me?”
The literature on child disclosure of family abuse (i.e. sexual abuse, physical abuse, exposure to domestic violence) will be reviewed with a focus on how parental and community response to disclosure predicts long-term recovery for the child. Subtle and overt forms of non-supportive responses to disclosure will be examined through the prism of recent research on priming and neuroethics- a literature that can help elucidate the multiple pathways that adults might unconsciously employ to discourage children from fully communicating details of their victimization.