Toronto multiagency child abuse research project: The abused and the abuser |
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Authors: | Paula J Kaplan Jessie Watters Georgina White Ruth Parry Robert Bates |
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Institution: | 1. Associate Professor, Department of Applied Psychology, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada;2. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Lecturer in Women''s Studies at University of Toronto, Canada |
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Abstract: | Information from 422 cases of child mistreatment in Toronto was gathered from the files of a child welfare agency and a children's hospital. These data were compared to patterns reported in previous studies and clinical writings on child mistreatment to investigate similarities and differences in families whose children have been abused in Canada, England, and the United States. Findings from the present study were similar to others in many respects. The differences were primarily in the area of lower incidences of such problems as perinatal difficulties in the children and intellectual limitations and social isolation in the parents; however, there was a higher incidence of single-parent families. The results suggest that clinicians should bear in mind that child mistreatment cannot be ruled out on the grounds that no serious problems have been noted for the child or the family. |
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Keywords: | Child abuse/neglect Child characteristics Parent characteristics Situational factors Socioeconomic status |
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