Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Offspring Emotional and Behavioral Problems: Maternal and Paternal Mechanisms of Risk Transmission

Child Maltreatment

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 67-78

  Rijlaarsdam, Jolien ^a   Stevens, Gonneke W J M ^b   Jansen, Pauline W ^a   Ringoot, Ank P ^a   Jaddoe, Vincent W V ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Ayer, Lynsay ^a,c   Verhulst, Frank C ^a   Hudziak, James J ^a,d   Tiemeier, Henning ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

child; child maltreatment; cohort studies; fathers; parenting; psychopathology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84909581712     PISSN: 10775595     EISSN: 15526119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077559514527639     Document Type: Article

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