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Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Physical Abuse of Their Children

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Experience of intimate partner violence, like child history of abuse, has been linked with physical child abuse. In addition, such abused women are more likely to report depression. Two forms of intimate partner violence are examined: physical and verbal/psychological. Depressed mothers are more likely to abuse their own children. This paper incorporates the above ideas into a model that tests the extent to which depression does or does not mediate the partner abuse-child abuse relationship. Control variables include history of child abuse (having been hit as a teen and having witnessed interparental abuse) plus several demographic variables. The respondents are selected from the Second National Family Violence Survey, a representative sample composed of 1,263 mothers who were currently partnered (within the last 12 months). Both logistic regression and ordinary least squares techniques were used in the analyses. Results show that the direct effect of intimate partner violence on physical child abuse disappears when depression is included in the analysis. In other words, depression fully mediates the effect of both physical and verbal/psychological intimate partner violence on physical child abuse. This is not the case for the abuse history variables, which are only partly mediated by depression.

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Cunningham, Susan., Elliott, Gregory. and Cole, Deborah. "Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Physical Abuse of Their Children" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p183151_index.html>

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Cunningham, S. M., Elliott, G. C. and Cole, D. L. , 2007-08-11 "Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Physical Abuse of Their Children" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p183151_index.html

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Abstract: Experience of intimate partner violence, like child history of abuse, has been linked with physical child abuse. In addition, such abused women are more likely to report depression. Two forms of intimate partner violence are examined: physical and verbal/psychological. Depressed mothers are more likely to abuse their own children. This paper incorporates the above ideas into a model that tests the extent to which depression does or does not mediate the partner abuse-child abuse relationship. Control variables include history of child abuse (having been hit as a teen and having witnessed interparental abuse) plus several demographic variables. The respondents are selected from the Second National Family Violence Survey, a representative sample composed of 1,263 mothers who were currently partnered (within the last 12 months). Both logistic regression and ordinary least squares techniques were used in the analyses. Results show that the direct effect of intimate partner violence on physical child abuse disappears when depression is included in the analysis. In other words, depression fully mediates the effect of both physical and verbal/psychological intimate partner violence on physical child abuse. This is not the case for the abuse history variables, which are only partly mediated by depression.

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Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Physical Abuse of Their Children: The Role of Depression as Mediator Susan M. Cunningham Department of Sociology and Anthropology Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies College of the Holy Cross scunning@holycross.edu Gregory C. Elliott Department of Sociology Center for the Study of Human Development Brown University Gregory_Elliott@Brown.edu Deborah L. Cole Department of Sociology Brown University Preferred Keywords: child physical abuse; intimate partner violence depression Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Physical Abuse of Their Children:
Violence from Partner 5.860*** .631 Psychological Violence from Partner 3.148*** .374 Hit as a Teenager 1.247*** .303 Witnessed Interparental Violence as a Teenager 1.064** .409 Family in Poverty 1.951*** .605 Family below Median Income Level 1.119*** .323 Non-Hispanic Black -0.707 .585 Hispanic -0.622 .629 Other 0.740 .665 Respondent Less than 19 at First Birth -0.455 .423 Note: *** p < .001; **p < .01; *p < .05


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