Clinics in Mother and Child Health

María Teresa Sotelo Morales

Publications

• Research Article
  Pre and Post Natal Bonding to Prevent Child Abuse
  Author(s): María Teresa Sotelo MoralesMaría Teresa Sotelo Morales
  
  Adverse and hostile emotions experienced by the mother during pregnancy derive in brain damage in the unborn child. These brain alterations are aggressions to a child during the gestational stage. The US National Institutions of Health report that rejection of pregnancy and absence of the maternal affective early bond, when combined with mental disorders in parents, is highly predictive risk factors for child abuse and intentional killing babies before 18 months of life. Usually hospital intervention programs focus on the baby and mother health conditions; nonetheless, there is no data and assistance whatsoever of the child and his future living conditions, ignoring alarm violence risk factors . Preventing program has not yet been established predicting child abuse potential, taking control of cases before occurs; however, is a promising resolution that has been ignored or r.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2090-7214.1000278

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