Child Sexual Abuse Prevention among a Sample of U.S. Parents.
Parents play an important role in protecting their children from childhood sexual abuse. Yet, there is relatively little empirical research examining what parents in the United States are currently doing to keep their children safe. Thus, our study examined which strategies a sample of United States...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 1099 - 1114 |
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