Citation

Gelles RJ. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1989; 59(4): 492-501.

Affiliation

College of Arts and Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2817087

Abstract

A national survey of six thousand households found single parents to be more likely to use abusive forms of violence toward their children than are parents in dual-caretaker households. Abusive violence appears to be a function of poverty in mother-only homes but unrelated to income among single fathers.

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