Child Protection
Parenting in a Precarious Climate: Indirect and Direct Pathways Linking Climate Change to Child Protection Peshal Kumar Puri [1] Introduction Climate change is increasingly recognized as a profound and systemic crisis with intergenerational implications, imposing substantial threats to societies, communities, and familial units globally (Carvalho, 2024; Cuartas et al., 2025) . This pervasive environmental transformation exacerbates existing vulnerabilities and creates novel challenges, particularly for the well-being and protection of children (Giannakopoulos, 2025; Parsons et al., 2024) . The cascading effects of climate change manifest not only as direct environmental hazards but also as indirect stressors that compromise the foundational protective systems essential for healthy child development (Oberg et al., 2021) . Children, owing to their physiological immaturity, lower risk perception, and limited autonomy compared to adults, represent a particularly suscep...