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Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse Radiology

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Parental History of Childhood Maltreatment and Offspring Attachment Insecurity and Disorganization: Two Meta-Analyses

Aino Sirparanta, Camille Danner Touati, Chantal Cyr, Raphaële Miljkovitch
Trauma Violence & Abuse Summary & key facts 2024 4 citations

The authors combined 25 studies (23 samples, 2,592 people) to see if parents' own childhood maltreatment relates to their children's attachment. They found a very small but statistically significant link with child attachment insecurity (r = .06) and no significant link with child attachment disorganization (r = .03). The authors…

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