Generalising the Cinderella Effect to unintentional childhood fatalities Tooley, Greg, Karakis, Mari, Stokes, Mark and Ozanne-Smith, Joan 2006, Generalising the Cinderella Effect to unintentional childhood fatalities, Evolution and human behavior, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 224-230, doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2005.10.001. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Generalising the Cinderella Effect to unintentional childhood fatalities Author(s) Tooley, Greg orcid.org/0000-0003-0191-3285 Karakis, Mari Stokes, Mark orcid.org/0000-0001-6488-4544 Ozanne-Smith, Joan Journal name Evolution and human behavior Volume number 27 Issue number 3 Start page 224 End page 230 Publisher Elsevier Inc. Place of publication New York, N.Y. Publication date 2006-05 ISSN 1090-5138 Summary We investigated whether the repeatedly demonstrated increase in risk of child abuse and infanticide associated with living with a step parent generalized to cases of unintentional childhood fatal injury, the most common cause of death in children across the developed world. Reports were drawn from the Australian National Coroners' Information System (NCIS) on all cases of intentionally (n=32) and unintentionally (n=319) produced fatal injury in children aged under 5 years between 2000 and 2003. Even when using the most conservative possible analytic approach, in which all cases in which family type was unclear were classified as being from an ‘intact biological family’, step children under 5 years of age were found to be at significantly increased risk of unintentional fatal injury of any type, and of drowning in particular. Children from single-parented families were generally not found to be at significantly increased risk of intentional or unintentional fatal injury, while children who lived with neither of their biological parents were at greatest risk overall for fatal injury of any type. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2005.10.001 Field of Research 170113 Social and Community Psychology HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2006, Elselvier Inc. Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30003565 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty of Health School of Psychology Higher Education Research Group Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Sat, 28 May 2022, 20:28:52 EST Fri, 17 Oct 2014, 08:25:15 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 21 times in TR Web of Science Cited 30 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1241 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 08:56:47 EST