This topic presents not only challenges to the expertise of representatives from various disciplines and authorities that must address this issue, but also human challenges that can only be met through interpersonal understanding and values, particularly when it comes to achieving consistent, sustainable, yet appropriate solutions to problems in individual cases. The spectrum of the phenomenology of child abuse and neglect begins well before a threshold that would justify administrative or legal measures. Even in these areas, it is about recognition, clarification, assistance, and the development of intervention strategies. The fields of forensic psychology and psychiatry come into play when expert opinions are prepared in family law proceedings regarding the issue of child abuse.