| Autor: |
Sturkie, Kinly, Flanzer, Jerry P. |
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Social Work; Nov/Dec87, Vol. 32 Issue 6, p491-496, 6p, 3 Charts |
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The article presents a study, which examined the psychosocial functioning of a group of families that include abused and neglected adolescents. This article focuses on the levels of depression and self-esteem present in these families, and notes the relevance of the research findings for conceptions of adolescence in general and theories of adolescent maltreatment in particular. Adolescence often is regarded as a time of profound transition and family conflict, so it is not surprising that the probability a child will be abused or neglected increases with his or her age. However, establishing meaningful parenting standards for the families of adolescents is even more difficult, partly because the already ambiguous threshold between acceptable and unacceptable parenting shifts, as a child gets older. The older a child becomes, the more liberal and imprecise the community standards that define the parameters of acceptable parenting behavior become. Therefore, parenting behaviors that might be deemed abusive or neglectful for a younger child often are regarded as justifiable or even necessary when the child becomes an adolescent. |
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Complementary Index |
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