1. Revd. A. Morton, Foreword to R. L. Castle and A. M. Kerr, A Study of Suspected Child Abuse (NSPCC, 1972) p. 1.
2. R. E. Heifer, ‘Basic issues concerning prediction’, in R. E. Heifer and C. H. Kempe (eds), Child Abuse and Neglect: The Family and the Community (Ballinger, 1976).
3. For an interesting critical analysis see S. Montgomery, ‘Problems in the Perinatal Prediction of Child Abuse’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 12, no. 2, 1982, pp. 189–96.
4. See also the discussion between Ray Heifer and Stuart Montgomery in ‘Correspondence’, British Journal of Social Work, vol. 12, no. 6, 1982, pp. 669–672.
5. Heifer, ‘Basic issues concerning prediction’, p. 364.