Citation

Palmer SE, Brown RA, Rae-Grant NI, Loughlin MJ. Child Welf. 1999; 78(2): 259-282.

Affiliation

School of Social Work, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Child Welfare League of America)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10418117

Abstract

This study is based on the reports of 384 adults who were abused physically, sexually, and/or emotionally in childhood by family members. It describes the survivors' attempts, as children, to get help by disclosing the abuse to someone who might intervene; those who did not disclose explain their reasons. The results indicate that disclosure usually did not bring an end to the abuse, and that little action was taken to control the perpetrator, even after disclosure took place. The responses received by the children to their disclosure are linked to their levels of self-esteem and family functioning as adults.

Language: en