Citation

Pelton LH. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1978; 48(4): 608-617.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

707612

Abstract

Increasingly, professional and public media are promulgating the belief that the problems of child abuse and neglect are broadly distributed throughout society, suggesting that their frequency and severity are unrelated to socioeconomic class. This paper argues that this belief is not supported by the evidence, and that its perpetuation serves to divert attention from the nature of the problems.

Language: en