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Child maltreatment from a sociobiological perspective
Author(s) -
Daly Martin,
Wilson Margo I.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.23219811107
Subject(s) - sociobiology , perspective (graphical) , psychology , child abuse , developmental psychology , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , social psychology , criminology , sociology , medical emergency , medicine , computer science , anthropology , artificial intelligence
The risk of child maltreatment is increased by mitigation of parental solicitude that, in some circumstances, can be predicted from evolutionary theory.