“…The research conducted so far have had local character (e.g. Halicka, 1995Halicka, , 2010Tobiasz-Adamczyk, 2009;Twardowska-Rajewska & Rajewska-de Mezer, 2005;Rudnicka-Drożak, 2006;Sygit & Ossowski, 2002;Synak, 2002, Bedyńska et al, 2009, Jaszczak-Kuźmińska & Michalska, 2010Korzeniowski & Radkiewicz, 2015). However, that research gives only a partial view of the phenomenon and a variety of methods and research techniques used in them and even no compliance of definitions and forms of abuse (various authors presenting the research problem use various terminology and typologies) make it difficult to compare the research results from particular research centers.…”