A Christian Natural Theology explains and defends Whitehead's thought philosophically, and it
contributes to current scholarly debates on the interpretation of Whitehead, as we have already seen.125 Its main purpose though is
to illustrate how Christian thinking is
uniquely possible within the framework of
process philosophy.
Indeed, Jay Belsky incorporated all of these risk factors into his
process model of parenting, 11 and data from multiple studies support links
to child well - being.12 In an experiment on the effectiveness of a program for low - birth - weight infants, Lawrence Berger and Jeanne Brooks - Gunn examined the relative effect of both socioeconomic status and parenting on child abuse and neglect (as measured by ratings of health providers who saw children in the treatment and control groups six times over the first three years of life, not by review of administrative data) and found that both factors
contributed significantly and
uniquely to the likelihood that a family was perceived
to engage in some form of child maltreatment.13 The link between parenting behaviors and child maltreatment suggests that interventions that promote positive parenting behaviors would also
contribute to lower rates of child maltreatment among families served.