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…maltreatment in poor families as a result of the many risks associated with living in poverty-among them chronic and severe stress, inadequate social support, and residence in dangerous housing and socially disrupted neighborhoods. Among poor families it is such situational factors, rather then serious psychopathology, that mat be responsible for perhaps Bibliography American Children in Poverty. Children's Defense Fund.1984. Livel, K.L, The School as a Tool for Survival. New York: National Cenbter of Poverty. 1990.