Child abuse & neglect
-
Child abuse & neglect · Jul 1997
Social support in child abuse and neglect: support functions, sources, and contexts.
The objective of the present paper was to examine the social support functions, sources and temporal contexts of Argentinian mothers in relation to child abuse and neglect. ⋯ Comparisons between both groups of mothers indicated that only some specific support indexes distinguished mothers with low and high abuse/neglect. Specifically, kin and instrumental support indexes were associated with child abuse/neglect, whereas nonkin and psychological support variables were not.