Maternal and child pathology in an urban ghetto.
A group of 80 black, urban ghetto mothers, 40 which a behaviorally disturbed child and 40 with no identified disturbed child, was evaluated by the MMPI. The literature reports a relationship between maternal pathology and child disturbance for middle- and working-class families. The present study, however, showed no such relationship between these two variables in ghetto families.
D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D010290:Parents; D011203:Poverty; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D014505:Urban Population