All therapists also had considerable prior experience working with low-income maltreating families.
To cope with a maltreating home environment, these children are confronted with an enormously complex learning problem.
Moreover, the maltreating and nonmaltreating families did not differ on their annual total income.
Future research should examine the way that child gender may influence the development and use of emotion management skills in maltreating families.
Moreover, these results underscore the criticality of providing evidence-based services to maltreating families.
In addition, the mean maternal age of the maltreating sample was higher than that in the nonmaltreating sample, 29.4 versus 25.8 years, t 2, 57!
Including benefits, the maltreating families made $15,900.00 per year, whereas the nonmaltreating comparisons made $17,620.00 annually.
The families in both groups were heavily reliant on public assistance, with 3.7% more of maltreating families receiving such support.
