Intergenerational Continuity of Child Abuse Among Adolescent Mothers: Authoritarian Parenting, Community Violence, and Race

Child Maltreatment

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 172-181

  Valentino, Kristin ^a   Nuttall, Amy K ^a   Comas, Michelle ^a   Borkowski, John G ^a   Akai, Carol E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

child abuse; community violence; ecological models; maltreatment; parenting; teen parenting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AUTHORITY; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MOTHER; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AUTHORITARIANISM; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTHERS; PARENTING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84866757244     PISSN: 10775595     EISSN: 15526119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077559511434945     Document Type: Article

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