Child abuse and violence in single-parent families: parent absence and economic deprivation.

نویسنده

  • R J Gelles
چکیده

A national survey of six thousand households found single parents to be more likely to use abusive forms of violence toward their children than are parents in dual-caretaker households. Abusive violence appears to be a function of poverty in mother-only homes but unrelated to income among single fathers.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The American journal of orthopsychiatry

دوره 59 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1989