title: Parental awareness and child abuse: a cognitive-developmental analysis of urban and rural samples.
abstract: A cognitive-developmental analysis of parental reasoning on child-rearing issues is presented and applied in two controlled studies of parents of abused or neglected children. Significant differences in parental awareness were found between urban parents and their controls; this relationship is sustained in a rural sample, controlling for child handicap as well as for other familial characteristics.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D002668:Child Rearing; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008128:Logic; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012424:Rural Population; D013850:Thinking; D014505:Urban Population