Annual of social work, Vol. 5 No. 1, 1998.
Review article
INTER GENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF CHILD ABUSE IN FAMILY
Nina Pečnik
; Department of Social Work, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The term “intergenerational transfer of child abuse” is related to the observed manifestation of adults abusing their own children if they themselves have been abused in their early age. The paper quotes empirical evidence of that phenomenon and shows the most prospective researches done on that issue. At the same time it gives us list of methodological problems that researches have to deal with. The author analyses mechanisms through which the possible abuse goes from generation to generation, ways children find out to protect themselves from effects of such abuse as well as ways of breaking that circle of abuse in the family. In the last part of the article the author suggests some ways of applying new insights in dealing with that problem professionally.
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Hrčak ID:
198504
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Publication date:
9.12.1998.
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