The article begins with a short background in child neglect. Stating that child neglect affects 8.4 percent of children and young people at some point in their childhoods ( ). Because of the lack of a standard definition of neglect, practitioners are struggling to decide what the minimal acceptable care should be for children. Due to the lack of research in in United Kingdom, the few researchers rely on United States findings to examine the negative impact on development that neglect has on children. Mainly the long term effects in cognitive learning, behavior, and socio-emotional development, health, early bonding/attachment, and health. All of which appear to be increasing. Although research regarding child neglect in the United Kingdom
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Additionally, the study is looking to see if adults who were abused can be used as a notable source of prediction of future physical and emotional violence committed on their partners. The study consisted of sixty-seven abused adults and seventy-eight non-abused adults that completed two scales: modified conflict tactics and jealousy and emotional …show more content…
Furthermore, the majority of women claimed to have had initiated the physical conflict with their partner, while the majority of the men reported that their partner initiated the violence. It was also found that physical child abuse was a significant predictor of both physical violence and verbal aggression perpetration. Those who were abused as children were more than twice as likely to be physically violent to their romantic partners when compared to those who were not abused. Additionally physical child abuse also predicted prolonged verbal aggression. Overall, victimization and perpetrators of physical violence were discovered as being related, more so with the abused group. More than twice as many participants who suffered from physical child abuse were both perpetrators and victims of physical violence with women consisting of hire statistics than men. Though there were few gender differences found in the
Additionally, the study is looking to see if adults who were abused can be used as a notable source of prediction of future physical and emotional violence committed on their partners. The study consisted of sixty-seven abused adults and seventy-eight non-abused adults that completed two scales: modified conflict tactics and jealousy and emotional …show more content…
Furthermore, the majority of women claimed to have had initiated the physical conflict with their partner, while the majority of the men reported that their partner initiated the violence. It was also found that physical child abuse was a significant predictor of both physical violence and verbal aggression perpetration. Those who were abused as children were more than twice as likely to be physically violent to their romantic partners when compared to those who were not abused. Additionally physical child abuse also predicted prolonged verbal aggression. Overall, victimization and perpetrators of physical violence were discovered as being related, more so with the abused group. More than twice as many participants who suffered from physical child abuse were both perpetrators and victims of physical violence with women consisting of hire statistics than men. Though there were few gender differences found in the