Child Abuse
Child Abuse | A Parental History of Abuse Is a Major Risk Factor in Child Abuse
Over the more than 30 years since C. Henry Kempe, Frederic N. Silverman, Brandt F. Steele, William Droegemueller, and Henry K. Silver’s description of the “battered child syndrome,” a tremendous amount has been written about the causes of child maltreatment. Much of the early writing reported that abusing parents were themselves abused, which led to the belief in the transmission of abuse or a cycle of abuse across generations. This notion of the intergenerational transmission of abuse was one of the earliest and most widely accepted theories of abuse. J.J. Spinetta and D. Rigler...
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- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Is Child Abuse a Serious Problem?
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Chapter 2: What Causes Child Abuse?
- Chapter 2 Preface
- Substance Abuse Is Responsible for Child Abuse
- Family Preservation Laws Put Children at Risk for Abuse
- The Foster Care System Exposes Children to Abuse
- Parental Cohabitation Exposes Children to a Greater Risk of Abuse
- Poverty Causes Child Abuse
- A Parental History of Abuse Is a Major Risk Factor in Child Abuse
- Chapter 3: How Can Society Respond to Child Abuse?
- Chapter 4: Will Changes in the Criminal Justice System Help Prevent Child Sexual Abuse?
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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