Hurt people hurt people. Just because that phrase has become a mantra of therapeutic babble doesn’t mean it’s not true. A study to be published soon in the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests we are significantly underestimating how much child abuse and neglect are intergenerational problems, and how much they can affect the likelihood of a family climbing out of poverty. Led by Duke University economist Jason Baron, the authors use longitudinal data from California. They find that roughly 70-80% of children who have at least one substantiated report of maltreatment from Child Protective Services also have a parent...