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The Intergenerational Transmission of Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence
Elizabeth A. Cannon, MS;
Amy E. Bonomi, PhD, MPH;
Melissa L. Anderson, MS;
Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009;163(8):706-708.
Objective To explore the association between women's self-reports of having witnessed intimate partner violence (IPV) as a child and their children witnessing IPV.
Design Retrospective cohort study. Data were collected by telephone survey from December 2003 to August 2005.
Setting Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington, a health maintenance organization.
Participants English-speaking women (N = 1288) aged 18 to 64 years enrolled at Group Health Cooperative for at least 3 years.
Measures Abused women with children were asked about their history of having witnessed IPV as a child (1 question). Abused women were identified using 5 questions from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey and using 10 items from the Women's Experience With Battering Scale. Abused women were asked if their children had ever witnessed IPV.
Results Adjusting for mothers' race/ethnicity and education level, children of women who had witnessed IPV during childhood had 1.29 times higher odds of witnessing IPV than children of women who did not witness IPV during childhood.
Conclusion Children of women who had witnessed IPV during childhood are more likely to witness IPV than children of women who did not witness IPV.
Author Affiliations: Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus (Ms Cannon and Dr Bonomi); and The Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative (Ms Anderson), Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (Dr Rivara), and Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Washington (Dr Rivara), Seattle.
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