Child maltreatment from a sociobiological perspective
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
- Vol. 1981 (11), 93-112
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cd.23219811107
Abstract
The risk of child maltreatment is increased by mitigation of parental solicitude that, in some circumstances, can be predicted from evolutionary theory.Keywords
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