NCJ Number
245691
Journal
Journal of Interpersonal Violence Volume: 28 Issue: 10 Dated: July 2013 Pages: 2134-2155
Date Published
July 2013
Length
22 pages
Annotation
We evaluate race/ethnicity and nativity-based disparities in three different types of intimate partner violence IPV and examine how economic hardship, maternal economic dependency, maternal gender beliefs, and neighborhood disadvantage influence these disparities.
Abstract
We evaluate race/ethnicity and nativity-based disparities in three different types of intimate partner violence IPV and examine how economic hardship, maternal economic dependency, maternal gender beliefs, and neighborhood disadvantage influence these disparities. Using nationally representative data from urban mothers of young children who are living with their intimate partners N = 1,886, we estimate a series of unadjusted and adjusted logit models on mothers' reports of physical assault, emotional abuse, and coercion. When their children were age 3, more than one in five mothers were living with a partner who abused them. The prevalence of any IPV was highest among Hispanic 26% and foreign-born 35% mothers. Economic hardship, economic dependency on a romantic partner, and traditional gender beliefs each increased women's risk for exposure to one or more types of IPV, whereas neighborhood conditions were not significantly related to IPV in adjusted models. These factors also explained most of the racial/ethnic and nativity disparities in IPV. Policies and programs that reduce economic hardship among women with young children, promote women's economic independence, and foster gender equity in romantic partnerships can potentially reduce multiple forms of IPV. Abstract published by arrangement with Sage.