Study finds one in five cases of child abuse is perpetrated by both parents. Researchers investigate the risk factors for child mistreatment where both parents are involved.
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In the study, published online recently in the journal Child Development, participants were asked about their co-parenting relationship with their partner in other words, how they related to each other as parents.
Researchers found that, in a sample of low-income couples, children have the best outcomes when both parents saw their co-parenting relationship as highly positive and worst when both parents viewed their relationship as poor.