Children with Orphans and Children growing up in the Family: a Comparative Analysis of the Prevalence of Violence

The article contains the comparative analysis of child abuse incidence between orphans and children in families. The data were obtained with adapted version of International Child Abuse Screening Tool - Children version (ICAST-C). Orphans are significantly more often suffer from psychological and physical abuse in forms of severe discipline, fights, beating, harassment, threatening, humiliation and cursing. All forms of sexual abuse are equally represented in both groups. At school, orphan children are vulnerable to repeated acts of aggression from peers and to severe discipline methods from teachers.