Child Violence against School Age Children in the Family and School Contexts and Children Cognitive and Social Development in Southeast Nigeria : evidence for Policy and Sustainable Development Goals agenda among Developing Nations

age children between the ages of 6years and 10years in the primary and junior secondary schools in the region. 430 pupils were included in the study from 108 schools across 36 communities in the region. Questionnaire instrument was used for data collection, which was filled through ordered approach with the research assistants, while descriptive and inferential statistics were applied in analyzing the collected data. From the findings, there is a high prevalence of child violence in the region, ranging from severe punishment, moderate punishment to child abuse; there is a negative correlation between child violence and children social/cognitive development (P = .000; r = -.098), while child violence in the region is predicted by age, sex, parents occupation and complaining about violence among the children; the overall impact of child violence was found to be anti-sustainable development in the region (P = .000; R2 = 69.2). [Publisher's Text]