Damaged Parents: An Anatomy of Child Neglect - Softcover

Polansky, Norman A. A.; Chalmers, Mary Ann; Buttenwieser, Elizabeth Werthan; Williams, David P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226672220 ISBN 13: 9780226672229

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1983

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Polansky Norman A Chalmers Mary Ann Buttenwieser E

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"Most of us are unaware of child neglect even when we are witnessing it. . . . Neglect is a matter of things undone, of inaction compounded by indifference. Since it goes on at home, it is a very private sin. . . . It is little wonder that most of the public is unaware of poor child caring. Its ignorance is even greater as to how widespread the problem is. But this is not a blissful ignorance. The public may not want to attend to child neglect, but it lives with the distortions of human personality that are left in its wake."—from chapter 1 of Damaged Parents

"Norman Polansky and his colleagues have produced a truly remarkable book. . . . One of the consequences of [the] relative invisibility of child neglect is that we also know less about it. But this book will help to correct that for it contains reports of findings from two systematic efforts to define, measure, classify, and understand child neglect."—Thomas M. Young, Social Service Review

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This book contains the distillation of fifteen years of the study of child neglect. It seeks to answer a series of interlocking questions: What does neglect typically look like? How widespread a phenomenon is it? What sequelae does it leave on the personalities of the children? How costly are these sequelae for the rest of society? Who are the neglectful parents, and what forces in their lives have damaged their parenting? From what we now know about them, what principles may we infer about the tactics for their treatment, person by person and family by family? And where do we stand with respect to strategies for our large-scale programs?

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0226672220
• ISBN 13: 9780226672229
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284