Child abuse and Ill-treatment

Child abuse noun - The physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children.

Ill-treatment and child abuse are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ill-treatment" instead a noun phrase "Child abuse".

Ill-treatment noun - Cruel or inhumane treatment.

Child abuse and ill-treatment are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Child abuse" with "Ill-treatment", this phrases are similar.