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Child abuse: Evidence from nonhuman primates
Author(s) -
Nadler Ronald D.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
developmental psychobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1098-2302
pISSN - 0012-1630
DOI - 10.1002/dev.420130509
Subject(s) - psychology , interpretation (philosophy) , child abuse , developmental psychology , psychiatry , suicide prevention , poison control , medicine , medical emergency , computer science , programming language
Horenstein (1977) recently examined laboratory research on infant abuse among rhesus monkeys for implications regarding the related problem in our own species. His analysis supported a psychiatric interpretation of human child abuse, for which specific measures at rehabilitation of both the parent and the child were proposed. In this paper, additional evidence regarding infant abuse in nonhuman primates is presented and implications of a social‐psychological interpretation of the problem are discussed.