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Parenting Attitudes, Family Environments, Depression, and Anxiety in Caregivers of Maltreated Children
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Mennen, Ferol E.; Trickett, Penelope K. – Family Relations, 2011
This study evaluated parenting attitudes, family environments, depression, and anxiety in a sample of primarily minority urban mothers to better understand maltreating mothers (n = 83), who retain custody of their children and how they are similar to and different from foster mothers (n = 50), kin caregivers (n = 52) of maltreated children, and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Mothers, Caregivers, Child Rearing
Social Support and Psychological Well-Being in Lesbian and Heterosexual Preadoptive Couples
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Goldberg, Abbie E.; Smith, JuliAnna Z. – Family Relations, 2008
This study examines predictors of social support and mental health among 36 lesbian and 39 heterosexual couples who were waiting to adopt. Lesbian preadoptive partners perceived less support from family than heterosexual partners but similar levels of support from friends. Lesbian and heterosexual partners reported similar levels of well-being.…
Descriptors: Adoption, Depression (Psychology), Social Support Groups, Homosexuality
Female Victims of Spousal Violence: Factors Influencing Their Level of Fearfulness.
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DeMaris, Alfred; Swinford, Steven – Family Relations, 1996
Employed data from the National Family Violence Survey to explore predictors of fear of future abuse among married or cohabitating women (n=356) whose partners abused them. Fear was higher in women whose partners initiated the violence; subjected them to forced sex or; made them afraid to retaliate in violence. (SNR)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Battered Women, Family Environment, Family Violence