Most maltreated children do not go on to maltreat their own children
Evidence
The cycle is not deterministic. In Byron Egeland’s prospective cohort, approximately 60 percent of mothers with maltreatment histories did not maltreat their own infants. In Cathy Spatz Widom’s official-records study, roughly 70 percent of maltreated children did not go on to maltreat. Something interrupts the transmission for the majority. — , The Rod and the Child, 6942
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Most maltreated mothers break the cycle rather than repeat it — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 6869; Only about one-third of maltreated children grow up to maltreat their own children — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8563; Intergenerational maltreatment transmission operates as a risk elevation, not inevitability — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 11013
Related
- Only about one-third of maltreated children grow up to maltreat their own children (similarity 0.93)
- Most maltreated mothers break the cycle rather than repeat it (similarity 0.93)
- Intergenerational maltreatment transmission operates as a risk elevation, not inevitability (similarity 0.86)
- Narrative coherence about one’s own childhood predicts whether maltreatment is transmitted (similarity 0.80)
- Treating abuse transmission as inevitable was empirically wrong and actively harmful (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Only about one-third of maltreated children grow up to maltreat their own children
#corroborates(0.95) — , The Rod and the Child, 8563 - Intergenerational maltreatment transmission operates as a risk elevation, not inevitability
#expands(0.80) — , The Rod and the Child, 11013