So now we went from sexual abuse to "maltreatment"?

This study in the Netherlands shows that adoptive parents are less likely to abuse children than step parents.

Also, I can only read the abstract and not the study itself. But that is NOT what th abstract says. It says adoptive parents were less likely to committ "maltreatment" (however that might be defined) compared to what the researchers "expected". Now we do not know what the researchers expected. We do not know if "maltreatment" was higher in the adoptive group than in biological parent group. We do not know if they controlled for family wealth. We know very little. And there is no good reason for this vagueness in the abstract other than to confuse. This sounds like politically correct distortion of data if anything

So now we went from sexual abuse to "maltreatment"?

This study in the Netherlands shows that adoptive parents are less likely to abuse children than step parents.

Also, I can only read the abstract and not the study itself. But that is NOT what th abstract says. It says adoptive parents were less likely to committ "maltreatment" (however that might be defined) compared to what the researchers "expected". Now we do not know what the researchers expected. We do not know if they controlled for family wealth. Etc etc. This sounds like politically correct distortion of data if anything

So now we went from sexual abuse to "maltreatment"?

This study in the Netherlands shows that adoptive parents are less likely to abuse children than step parents.

Also, I can only read the abstract and not the study itself. But that is NOT what th abstract says. It says adoptive parents were less likely to committ "maltreatment" (however that might be defined) compared to what the researchers "expected". Now we do not know what the researchers expected. We do not know if they controlled for family wealth. Etc etc. This sounds like politically correct distortion of data if snything

So now we went from sexual abuse to "maltreatment"?