Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ494352
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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The Social Context of Child Maltreatment.
Baumrind, Diana
Family Relations, v43 n4 p360-68 Oct 1994
Discusses family factors associated with child abuse from an ecological perspective. Identifies economic and cultural generative factors of child abuse. Explores special circumstances affecting occurrence of child maltreatment. Examines dimensions of responsiveness, demandingness, and parental authority patterns in their application to abusive families, and the evidence for intergenerational transmission of abuse. (CRR)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Rearing, Counseling, Family Problems, Family Violence, Parent Attitudes
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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