Vulnerability or Resilience to Intergenerational Sexual Abuse: The Role of Maternal Factors

Child Maltreatment

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 78-91

  Leifer, Myra ^a,c   Kilbane, Teresa ^b   Kalick, Sarah ^a  

^a Illinois Sch of Prof Psychology   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c ARGOSY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intergenerational sexual abuse; Sexual abuse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT;

EID: 2342630023     PISSN: 10775595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077559503261181     Document Type: Article

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