Citation

Korbin JE. Child Abuse Negl. 1987; 11(3): 397-407.

Affiliation

Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3676896

Abstract

Fatally maltreated children are an elusive component in the complex interaction that has led to their premature deaths. Retrospective research with women imprisoned for fatal child maltreatment indicated recurring themes of maternal interpretations of their children as rejecting and developmentally abnormal, either advanced or delayed. Separations and difficulties during reunions were critical. The fatality was not a one-time event, but the exit point of a recurrent cycle of abusive interaction.

Language: en