The forgotten victims of wife abuse: a comparative analysis of children of battered women and a representative population subsample

Pocock, Tania M.

The forgotten victims of wife abuse: a comparative analysis of children of battered women and a representative population subsample A thesis submitted to the University of Auckland for the Master of Arts in Psychology Tania margaret Pocock - 1994 - 180 p. ; 30 cm

Little research has been directed toward children who grow up in wife abusive homes. The present study compared seventeen male and female Refuge children between the ages of five and eleven years with a representative population subsample of one hundred and twenty-seven male and female childred aged between five and eleven years over three important and inter-related areas: children's behavioural functioning, chilren's perceived quality of social support and children's personal approach to interpersonal problem solving. From the abstract.


CHILDREN
CHILDREN AS VICTIMS
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
CHILD ABUSE


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