Publication Date:
2015-03-31
Description:
The literature has been contradictory regarding whether parents who were abused as children have a greater tendency to abuse their own children. A prospective 30-year follow-up study interviewed individuals with documented histories of childhood abuse and neglect and matched comparisons and a subset of their children. The study assessed maltreatment based on child protective service (CPS) agency records and reports by parents, nonparents, and offspring. The extent of the intergenerational transmission of abuse and neglect depended in large part on the source of the information used. Individuals with histories of childhood abuse and neglect have higher rates of being reported to CPS for child maltreatment but do not self-report more physical and sexual abuse than matched comparisons. Offspring of parents with histories of childhood abuse and neglect are more likely to report sexual abuse and neglect and that CPS was concerned about them at some point in their lives. The strongest evidence for the intergenerational transmission of maltreatment indicates that offspring are at risk for childhood neglect and sexual abuse, but detection or surveillance bias may account for the greater likelihood of CPS reports.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Widom, Cathy Spatz -- Czaja, Sally J -- DuMont, Kimberly A -- AA09238/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/ -- AA11108/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/ -- DA10060/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- DA17842/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- HD40774/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- MH49467/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- MH58386/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Mar 27;347(6229):1480-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1259917.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Psychology Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA. cwidom@jjay.cuny.edu. ; Psychology Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA. ; William T. Grant Foundation, New York, NY, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25814584" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Bias (Epidemiology)
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Child
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Child Abuse/*psychology/statistics & numerical data
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Child Abuse, Sexual/psychology/statistics & numerical data
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Child Welfare
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Follow-Up Studies
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Humans
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Middle Aged
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Parents/*psychology
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Probability
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Prospective Studies
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Self Report
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Young Adult
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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