The hypothesis that parents who abuse children have unrealistically premature expectations for the children's development was tested. No differences in expectations of abusing and nonabusing parents were found. Results support earlier studies suggesting that the unrestricted form of the notion that abusing parents have premature developmental expectations be discarded.
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Kravitz et al. (1983) studied this question.
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