Smacking - Are we being too heavy-handed? Findings from the Pacific Islands families study

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1267, 2007, Pages

  Schluter, Philip J ^a,b   Sundborn, Gerhard ^a   Abbott, Max ^a   Paterson, Janis ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; FATHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MOTHER; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PREVALENCE; PUERPERIUM; PUNISHMENT; SMACKING;

EID: 84879464583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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