Behavioral problems among children whose mothers are abused by an intimate partner

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1231-1246

  Kernic, Mary A ^a,c   Wolf, Marsha E ^a   Holt, Victoria L ^a   McKnight, Barbara ^a   Huebner, Colleen E ^a   Rivara, Frederick P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Child abuse; Child behavior; Child maltreatment; Child witness; Domestic violence; Intimate partner violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGGRESSIVENESS; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL DEPRESSION; CALCULATION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0345254919     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2002.12.001     Document Type: Article

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