"It was almost 30 years ago that I first began focusing my research efforts on understanding the antecedents and consequences of child abuse and neglect. Those of us interested in providing an empirical foundation for preventive and ameliorative interventions were met with statements from federal funding agencies as well as scholars [1], challenging us to update the research base in this relatively new interdisciplinary field because the empirical work was considered to be severely limited, owing in large part to the reliance on cross-sectional designs involving poorly defined constructs of the major variables of interest (i.e., maltreatment)...."
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