SynthesisClinical psychology review2020
Intergenerational effects of childhood maltreatment: A systematic review of the parenting practices of adult survivors of childhood abuse, neglect, and violence.
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95 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 285 citations in OpenAlex.
- The health effects associated with physical, sexual and psychological gender-based violence against men and women: a Burden of Proof study.Nature human behaviour · 2025Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Trauma-Informed Parenting Programs for Traumatized Parents and Their Components: A Meta-Analytic Study.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Emotion Recognition in Adults With a History of Childhood Maltreatment: A Systematic Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Pooled it
- What Are the Mechanisms Underpinning Intergenerational Transmission of Violence Perpetration? A Realist Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Review
- Parenting with a History of ACEs: Examining the Impact of Cumulative Exposure and Child Sexual Abuse on Mothers' and Fathers' Reports of Parent-Child Relationship Quality.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- "I was so Disconnected": The Role of Social Bonds in Surviving Childhood Maltreatment.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- Sentinel injuries in child abuse: a multidisciplinary approach.International journal of legal medicine · 2026Article
- The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Neuropsychological Disorders and Its Intergenerational Transmission Mechanisms.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Framework for Culturally Responsive Home Visitation.Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society · 2026Review
- Parenting After Child Maltreatment: A Study of Maternal Parenting Strategies and the Parent-child Relationship.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- Childhood paternal abuse and low paternal affection predict adult panic symptoms 18 years later via actigraphy-indexed sleep disruptions.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Violence against minors. Analysis of the phenomenon based on forensic medical examinations performed at the Department of Forensic Medicine in Poznan in 2015-2020.Archiwum medycyny sadowej i kryminologii · 2026Article
- Unseen wounds of childhood: Emotional abuse, neglect, and later diabetes vulnerability in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-sectional study.Medicine · 2026Article
- Parent-to-child intergenerational influence of perceived alienation towards parents: mediation of children's life-events, and moderation of children's gender and left-behind status.BMC psychology · 2026Article
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- Maternal and paternal adverse childhood experiences are linked to school-aged children's psychosocial functioning.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Mental Health in Educational Communities in Chile After a Public Health Emergency: An Assessment of Schoolchildren and Their Caregivers.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Indirect and Conditional Associations Between ADHD and Risky Internet Use in Elementary School Children With Parent-child Conflict and Maternal Childhood Trauma.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- The impact of childhood maltreatment on paternal antenatal bonding: the mediating role of antenatal depression.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and use of corporal punishment among women in low-resource settings: a convergent mixed methods study with mothers of children under five in the Dominican Republic.BMC women's health · 2025Article
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Abstract
A history of maltreatment in childhood may influence adults' parenting practices, potentially affecting their children. This systematic review examines 97 studies investigating associations of parental childhood victimization with a range of parenting behaviors that may contribute to the intergenerational effects of abuse: abusive parenting, problematic parenting, positive parenting, and positive parental affect. Key findings include: (1) parents who report experiencing physical abuse or witnessing violence in the home during childhood are at increased risk for reporting that they engage in abusive or neglectful parenting; (2) a cumulative effect of maltreatment experiences, such that adults who report experiencing multiple types or repeated instances of victimization are at greatest risk for perpetrating child abuse; (3) associations between reported childhood maltreatment experiences and parents' problematic role reversal with, rejection of, and withdrawal from their children; (4) indirect effects between reported childhood maltreatment and abusive parenting via adult intimate partner violence; and (5) indirect effects between reported childhood maltreatment and lower levels of positive parenting behaviors and affect via mothers' mental health. Thus, childhood experiences of maltreatment may alter parents' ability to avoid negative and utilize positive parenting practices. Limitations of this body of literature include few prospective studies, an overreliance on adults' self-report of their childhood victimization and current parenting, and little examination of potentially differential associations for mothers and fathers.
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