The Correlation Between Child Abuse and Poverty: An Annotated Bibliography

Abstract: A 5 page collection of abstracts from articles relating to the correlation which exists between child abuse and poverty. Starting with a book on the subject by Besharov and Laumann (2001) which provides an extensive investigation of the subject, this paper reviews several different aspects of the correlation between child abuse and poverty. The papers abstracted range in subject matter from the environmental and circumstantial worlds which engulf these families to how child abuse might present in a medical situation to how the abuse of illegal drugs can correlate with child abuse. Bibliogrpahy lists 10 sources.

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Catagory: Race, Politics & Society

Subcatagory: Sociology, Social Work, & Counseling

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