fficulties in school adjustment and performance. The latter, it seems would result from interference in the childs ability to sublimate or displace basic need and impulse gratification into more neutralized activities. Abusive ParentMany researchers have declared that the abusive parent major problem is his economy status in this case poverty, and the many environmental factors that could deteriorate the psychological condition of the abuser. Social, economic and demographic factors are irrelevant to the actual act of child abuse according to other researchers. They have claimed that child abuse is due to the deficiency of personality structure of the abusive parent. However these researches have agreed in the aspect of personality of the abusive parent. They suggest that the deficits of the abusive parents personality structure cause aggressive impulses that are expressed too liberally (Steele and Pollock, 1968). Abusive parents had been described as immature, impulsive, dominant and rigid, also they have been isolated from families, they need some one to depend on and they had marital conflicts. Researchers like Steele and Pollock (1968) have found that abusive parents manifested impaired impulse control, poor self-esteem, and poor self concept they stated that parents treated their child as adults and they were unable to understand the different stages of development of their children. Abusive parents cannot be categorized as high or low in intelligence.All investigators agreed that many parents had themselves been physically or emotionally abused and neglected as children by their parents. Abusive parents had been raised in the same manner and style in which they were raising their own children (Steele and Pollock 1968). In many studies the parents are viewed as emotionally powerless because of unfortunate experiences in their childhood. These abusive parents tend to react to their children by repeating their own personal e...
