Child abuse by mothers' boyfriends: Why the overrepresentation?☆
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2019, Child Abuse and NeglectCitation Excerpt :More recent research with youth involved in child protective service agencies (Van IJzendoorn, Euser, Prinzie, Juffer, & Bakermans-Kranenburg, 2009) and with nationally representative samples of children (Turner et al., 2007; Turner, Finkelhor, Hamby, & Shattuck, 2013) has also concluded that rates of victimization were generally higher for youth from single parent and stepfamilies than for youth from two-parent families. Studies that have explored the relationship between family structure and violence towards children demonstrated that mothers' boyfriends were responsible for considerable abuse (Blaser, 1985; Krugman, 1982; Margolin, 1992) and that this abuse was both different in character and more likely to be lethal (Daly & Wilson, 1988) than abuse by biological fathers. According to Daly and Wilson, "When injuries are attributed to 'child abuse,' the difference between stepparent and genetic parent homes is large and is independent of risk attributable to low socioeconomic status, maternal youth, family size, or personality characteristics of the abusers" (Daly & Wilson, 1988, pg. 520).
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This study was supported by Harry Frank Guggenheim and University of Iowa Spelman Reckefeller research grants.