Child Abuse and the Social Environment.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- The Role of Environmental Forces -- The Application of the Ecological Method -- 2 Child Protection in the U.S.: A System in Crisis -- 3 Rival Theories and Previous Research -- Psychodynamic vs. Sociological Theory -- Adolescent Pregnancy and Illegitimate Birth -- Divorce and Marital Discord -- The Single-Parent Family -- Economic Status -- Education -- 4 Findings -- The Population at Risk -- Sparsely Populated Counties -- Characteristics of Abusive and Neglectful Families -- County Group Comparisons -- Environmental Variable Correlation with Child Maltreatment Rules -- Multiple Regression of Rates of Reported Child Maltreatment on Environmental Variables -- Discrimination of Risk -- 5 Discussion of Study Results -- Family Structure and the Ability to Provide -- The Influence of Adolescent Pregnancy -- Forms of Child Maltreatment -- Child Protection Laws, Interstate Variance -- 6 Recommendations -- Refocusing Service: A Comprehensive Stress Model -- Large-Scale Ecological Study -- Exploring Relations Among Rival Etiological Theories -- Increasing the Suitability of Public Data Sets for Comparative Analyses -- 7 Conclusion -- Appendix A -- References -- Index.
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