“…Widom (1989a) (Widom, 1989b ;Strauss, 1991). Widom (1989b) (Widom, 1989a (Smetana et coll., 1984) ou qu'ils soient plus portés à promouvoir le recours à la violence pour solutionner des problèmes quotidiens (Carlson, 1991 , 1987 ;Massé, 1990a ;Widom, 1989a The hypothesis of intergenerational transmission of maltreatment has too often assumed a direct causality between antecedents of violence and the abuse or neglect by the parents of their own children. While presenting the results of an empirical study with a control group to test the « poverty »factor, the author points out that maltreating parents have more a en been exposed to violence in their previous history than the control group.…”