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Evolutionarily conserved pathways of caregiving breakdown underlie contemporary child maltreatment

2026-07-07

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<h4>Summary</h4> Child maltreatment is a leading cause of preventable harm, yet how diverse risk factors accumulate to precipitate caregiving failure remains unclear. In non-human mammals, fatal abandonment or aggression toward offspring occurs under specific ecological conditions, suggesting evolutionarily conserved pathways for caregiving breakdown. To test whether similar structures apply to humans, we conduct...

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Literature Corpus work: 9484d4d2-d21d-50e8-acff-6bf79e907705
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.03.26357058

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