This study examines child abuse prevention policies in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom and Sweden and provides a base material to guide the development of the nation's child abuse prevention policies. The study was intended to explore child abuse prevention policies of the representative countries of each welfare regime, based on the concept of welfare regime, which has an important influence on determining the policies of a country. The United States, a typical liberal nation, is one of the countries most influenced by the nation's efforts to prevent child abuse. Also, Japan is a liberal country that has influenced most of the policies and cultures of our country, Britain is one of the most important conservative countries in the world, in which Korea has had a great influence on child policies among European countries. And Sweden is a social democratic country, and it is now a country with many influences on policies, institutions, cultures, etc. After analyzing the child abuse prevention policies of these countries, these countries were led by the government in carrying out policies related to child abuse and sought to prevent child abuse with a preventive approach rather than a reactive approach. If we look at the direction of improvement in the nation's child abuse prevention policies based on cases in these countries, a government-led child abuse prevention policy will have to be implemented, and a preventive approach will be needed rather than an ex post facto approach to child abuse.