@article{ref1,
title="A statewide study of the public attitudes toward child abuse",
journal="Child abuse and neglect",
year="1991",
author="Dhooper, S. S. and Royse, D. D. and Wolfe, L. C.",
volume="15",
number="1-2",
pages="37-44",
abstract="A statewide survey of adults revealed that they are well informed about some aspects of child abuse. They had a generally good intuitive understanding of the characteristics of abused children and child abusers, but a majority seemed to have a &quot;deviance&quot; perspective on child abuse. They considered abusers as abnormal and intractable. While three-quarters of the respondents were aware that they are obligated to report cases of child abuse to the authorities, one-fifth knew someone who had abused a child, but only a third of these actually reported the case.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0145-2134",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}