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Spruce Run News (December 1986), Spruce Run Staff Dec 1986

Spruce Run News (December 1986), Spruce Run Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Children's Violence To Single Mothers, Larry R. Livingston Dec 1986

Children's Violence To Single Mothers, Larry R. Livingston

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

A survey of 151 mothers to determine characteristics of violence experienced from their children. The survey assessed the length of time they had been single parents, the age and sex of their children, the frequency and types of violence they experienced, and the influence of violent adult modeling upon the children's violence.

Findings indicate that 29% of the mothers had been assaulted by their children. The violent families contained more children than the nonviolent families, and the violent children's ages were more closely-spaced. Battered mothers also reported greater modeling of violence (the children seeing an adult striking their mother) than …


Spruce Run News (Summer 1986), Spruce Run Staff Jul 1986

Spruce Run News (Summer 1986), Spruce Run Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.