Scholars and practitioners repeatedly discuss a parent's history of childhood maltreatment as a key risk factor for the experience of maltreatment among his or her own children. Several studies demonstrate that a parent's history of maltreatment elevates the risk of her or his offspring's abuse or neglect, perpetrated by that parent and/or another caregiver. This would be an example of ____ in the interactional theory.
1) intergenerational continuity
2) intergenerational discontinuity
3) intergenerational resilience
4) late bloomer