摘要：Early childhood is an asset for the future of family, society, and nationbecause the quality of a nation is influenced by the quality of the children of thenation as a whole. Unfortunately, child abuse or violence is still occurs in manyenvironments such as family level. The purpose of this study is to examine and toexplore the factors causing child abuse at family level which mostly done by parents.The research method used qualitative approach. Data were collected by questionnaireand analyzed with qualitative descriptive technique. Sample selection was done bycluster sampling technique. The subjects of this research are the parents of childrenaged 4-6 years whom their children attend school in Kindergarten in Gondomanancluster, Umbulharjo, Gedongtengen, and Ngampilan. The result shows that factorscausing parents to do violence in the sub district of Umbulharjo, Ngampilan,Gondomanan and Gedongtengen is the psychological condition of immature parentsin terms of self-emotional regulation.
