抄録
Since 1990, many organized network activities for the prevention of child abuse and neglect have been developed in Japan. The purpose of this article is to analize and characterize each network organization. 17 organizations were surveyed in Japan by interviewing and mailing a questionnaire from February 1997 to December 1998. The questionnanire included the motivation to establish the network, history of the network, constituent members of the network, contents of activities of the network, financial situation and an evaluation of network activity. We divided these organizations into voluntary, government-supported, voluntary plus government-supported, hospital-based and research-oriented networks, and analized three types, voluntary, government-supported and voluntary plus government-supported. Voluntary networks were characterized with keywords as follows; "self-help" and "advocacy". Government-supported networks were characterized with the keyword; "problem-solving". We found that government-supported networks needed more contact with other local goverments. In addition, voluntary-based and gorvenment-supported network organizations should cooperate more closely with each other in the future.
