Child‐To‐Parent Violence in Chile: Visibility, Legal Gaps and Projections of a Growing Phenomenon

Child‐to‐parent violence (CPV) involves repeated physical, psychological, or economic aggression by children or adolescents against their parents or primary caregivers. Although internationally recognised as a growing and complex phenomenon, in Chile CPV remains subsumed under the generic category of domestic violence, lacking a differentiated legal classification. This study describes and compares CPV reports recorded by the Chilean Public Prosecutor's Office between 2020 and 2024, disaggregated by region and type of parental figure victimised. A quantitative descriptive–comparative design was applied using official administrative data obtained through the Transparency Law. Analyses included descriptive statistics, one‐way ANOVA, the Mann–Kendall trend test, and ARIMA and exponential smoothing time‐series models. A total of 155,518 reports were identified, with the highest concentrations in the Metropolitan, Valparaíso, and Biobío regions, and 55.3% directed towards maternal figures. Results show a statistically significant upward trend, with projections indicating continued growth, particularly involving non‐biological parental figures, underscoring the urgency of differentiated legal and policy responses.