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Citation

Caplan PJ, Watters J, White G, Parry R, Bates R. Child Abuse Negl. 1984; 8(3): 343-351.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6541086

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.


Language: en

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