Parental awareness and child abuse: A cognitive-developmental analysis of urban and rural samples.

Abstract
A cognitive-developmental analysis of parental reasoning on child-rearing issues is presented and applied in two controlled studies of parents of abused or neglected children. Significant differences in parental awareness were found between urban parents and their controls; this relationship is sustained in a rural sample, controlling for child handicap as well as for other familial characteristics.
Funding Information
  • Danforth Foundation
  • Radcliffe Institute
  • Administration for Children, Youth and Families (OCD-CB-141)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (1-TO1-MH15517-01A2-CD)

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