Process Evaluation of Parents Anonymous

Publication Date: July 2002

Publisher: National Council on Crime and Delinquency

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Research Area: Social conditions

Type: Report

Abstract:

One promising program to address child abuse and neglect is Parents Anonymous. Parents Anonymous operates a network of parent-led, professionally facilitated, community-based groups. Numerous studies have shown that maltreating parents are often socially isolated, have smaller peer networks, and have less contact with and receive less help from their families. The extent to which interventions foster supportive social and emotional bonds between at-risk parents and others will likely increase the long-term effectiveness of any such efforts to promote
more nurturing parenting