community member will become the standard by which we express our own parenting.
             The parental relationship is the most salient feature of the social world of the young child, and the impact of the parent-child relationship on a child's cognitive and emotional development has been the subject of extensive research (see e.g., Bakeman & Brown, 1980; Baumrind, 1971; Beckwith, 1984; Bee et al., 1982; Blehar, Lieberman, & Ainsworth, 1977; Bradley et al., 1989). (Caughy, Brodsky, O'Campo & Aronson, 2001, p. 679)
             Many argue that these two theories, as a result of this underpinning do not necessarily account for all aspects of maltreatment of children, as there are clearly people who were not maltreated by their parents and choose to maltreat their own children. This argument is not entirely truthful as both theoretic themes express that even current parent modeling, as an adult will effect the manner in which an individual treats his or her own children. In both theories there is an allowance of the fact that the behavior of even our mode
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