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Alcoholism and severe child maltreatment
Richard Famularo1, Karen Stone2, Richard Barnum1
1Children's Hospital.
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|July 1, 1986
Abstract:
A controlled study of the association between parental alcoholism and severe child maltreatment--i.e., physical abuse, sexual abuse, or neglect requiring court-ordered removal of the child from the home--reveals a significant overrepresentation of alcoholism in the parent population.