Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Interparental Conflict and Child Adjustment: An Overview
- Part One Foundations
- Part Two Basic Processes
- Part Three Family and Peer Contexts
- 9 Interparental Conflict and Parent–Child Relationships
- 10 Sibling Relationships and Interparental Conflict
- 11 Managing Marital Conflict: Links with Children's Peer Relationships
- 12 Domestic Violence and Child Adjustment
- 13 When Conflict Continues after the Marriage Ends: Effects of Postdivorce Conflict on Children
- 14 Marital Conflict in Stepfamilies
- Part Four Applications
- Part Five Future Directions
- Author Index
- Subject Index
12 - Domestic Violence and Child Adjustment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Interparental Conflict and Child Adjustment: An Overview
- Part One Foundations
- Part Two Basic Processes
- Part Three Family and Peer Contexts
- 9 Interparental Conflict and Parent–Child Relationships
- 10 Sibling Relationships and Interparental Conflict
- 11 Managing Marital Conflict: Links with Children's Peer Relationships
- 12 Domestic Violence and Child Adjustment
- 13 When Conflict Continues after the Marriage Ends: Effects of Postdivorce Conflict on Children
- 14 Marital Conflict in Stepfamilies
- Part Four Applications
- Part Five Future Directions
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Wife abuse is now recognized as an important health and social problem that can have devastating short- and long-term consequences. Although women are the most obvious victims of wife abuse, it has become increasingly clear that their children are affected as well. This chapter reviews the empirical literature on the link between wife abuse (and marital violence, see the following paragraph) with child adjustment. We explore some of the parameters of this association and note conceptual, methodological, and practical issues confronting researchers in the area. We also highlight several controversial issues in the conceptualization of violence and note gaps in our knowledge that limit what can be concluded about this association. We conclude by offering several suggestions for future research.
It should be noted at the outset that in most of this literature the terms wife abuse and violence toward women are used interchangeably with the terms marital violence and interparent violence (Jouriles, McDonald, Norwood, & Ezell, in press). Similarly, the phrase children of battered women is often used interchangeably with phrases such as children of maritally violent parents. These terms, however, should refer to different constructs, depending on whether the intended focus is on violence against women, specifically, or interspousal violence in general. We discuss this conceptual distinction in more detail later in this chapter, and we attempt to maintain this distinction when referring to violence throughout this review.
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- Interparental Conflict and Child DevelopmentTheory, Research and Applications, pp. 315 - 336Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001
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