Child abuse and neglect : cross-cultural perspectives / [electronic resource]
edited by Jill E. Korbin ; with forewords by Robert B. Edgerton and C. Henry Kempe.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1981.
- xiv, 217 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Child abuse and cultural values: the case of New Guinea / Child abuse and neglect in Sub-Saharan Africa / The socioeconomic context of child abuse and neglect in native South America / Child rearing and social structure in rural India: toward a cross-cultural definition of child abuse and neglect / Socioeconomic and psycho-cultural contexts of child abuse and neglect in Turkey / Child abandonment and infanticide: a Japanese case / Child abuse in Taiwan / "Very few cases": child abuse and neglect in the People's Republic of China / Child rearing and child abuse: the Polynesian context / L.L. Langness -- Sarah LeVine and Robert LeVine -- Orna R. Johnson -- Thomas Poffenberger -- Emelie A. Olson -- Hiroshi Wagatsuma -- David Y. Wu -- Jill E. Korbin -- Jane Ritchie and James Ritchie.