Social Aspects of the Battered Baby Syndrome
- 1 December 1974
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 125 (589) , 568-582
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.125.6.568
Abstract
In spite of increasing interest, the problem of the battered child remains controversial. Some see the problem as a response to stressful social circumstances and society's permissive attitude to violence (23), others view it as primarily a manifestation of parental maladjustment (64).Keywords
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