OBJECTIVE The study had two aims: (1) To investigate whether mothers with a history of contact child sexual abuse were anxious about the intimate aspects of parenting compared with a clinical comparison group. (2) To determine if there was any relationship between the mother's anxieties and the kind of parenting they recalled receiving themselves. METHOD Two groups of mothers in mental health...

Child Sexual Abuse is a pervasive issue in today’s world that not only has deadly short-term effects but also long-lasting ones can damage the victim(s) their offspring and loved ones. The term ‘Child Abuse’ refers to wide array of acts, behaviors, motions perpetrated against child or children. CSA, have endure life-long life-altering consequences often lead damaging changes one’s psyche, behav...

In conjunction with prospective ratings of child maltreatment (i.e., sexual abuse, physical abuse, and physical neglect) and measures of dissociation and somatization, this study examined prospective pathways between child maltreatment and nonsuicidal, direct self-injurious behavior (SIB; e.g., cutting, burning, self-hitting). Ongoing participants in the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Parents ...