Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

I INTRODUCTION

Introduction

Jane B. Lancaster

Richard J. Gelles

II CHILD ABUSE: CROSS-CULTURAL, HISTORICAL, AND EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES

What to Learn from Cross-Cultural and Historical Research on Child Abuse and Neglect: An Overview

Richard J. Gelles

Child Maltreatment in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Vulnerable Children and Circumstances

Jill E. Korbin

Neglect, Abuse, and Avoidable Death: Parental Investment and the Mortality of Infants and Children in the European Tradition

S. R. Johansson

III EXPLAINING CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT

Sex-Biased Parental Investment among Primates and Other Mammals: A Critical Evaluation of the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Child Abuse: A Comparative Psychobiological Perspective

Martin Reite

John P. Capitanio

External and Internal Influences on Aggression in Captive Group-Living Monkeys

Euclid O. Smith

Larry D. Byrd

Children as Homicide Victims

Martin Daly

Margo Wilson

Risk of Maltreatment of Children Living with Stepparents

Margo Wilson

Martin Daly

Time, Place, and Parental Awareness: A Cognitive-Developmental Perspective on Family Adaptation and Parental Care

Carolyn Moore Newberger

IV OUTCOMES AND CONSEQUENCES OF MALTREATMENT

Intergenerational Continuity of Abuse

Byron Egeland

Deborah Jacobvitz

Kathleen Papatola

The Sequelae of Child Maltreatment

Dante Cicchetti

Vicki Carlson

Karen G. Braunwald

J. Lawrence Aber

The Consequences of Child Maltreatment: Biosocial and Ecological Issues

James Garbarino

Index