Fryer, George E. creator text Electronic books. xx 2019 monographic eng 1 online resource (158 pages) 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. Abused children United States Poverty Psychological aspects People with social disabilities United States Parent and child United States Single parents Psychology United States HV741 .F794 2019 362.7/6/0973 Fryer, George E. Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2019 9780429690662 https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5829427 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5829427 https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5829427 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5829427 MiAaPQ 211129 20220120180726.0 EBC5829427 eng