Raphael Jody
Center for Impact Research in Chicago, USA.
J Am Med Womens Assoc (1972). 2002 Winter;57(1):32-5.
This paper reviews the growing body of research literature on the relationship of domestic violence to welfare. Not only do women on welfare suffer from domestic violence in far greater numbers than women in the general population, but their abusers, threatened by the women's efforts at education, training, or work, also use violence and threats of violence to sabotage these efforts at economic self-sufficiency. For this reason, welfare reform exacerbates domestic violence in the lives of many low-income women. As a result of the federal Family Violence Option, most state welfare plans allow battered women on welfare more time and specialized services before mandating work in order to keep them and their children safe. Recent research and monitoring have shown, however, that the majority of battered women on welfare do not tell their welfare workers about the violence. Ending the isolation of these battered women and helping them with domestic violence services pose difficult challenges. Women's health providers may be in a better position to accomplish this task than welfare department personnel.
本文回顾了关于家庭暴力与福利关系的越来越多的研究文献。领取福利的女性遭受家庭暴力的人数远远多于普通女性，而且她们的施虐者因女性接受教育、培训或工作的努力而受到威胁，也会使用暴力和暴力威胁来破坏这些实现经济自给自足的努力。因此，福利改革加剧了许多低收入女性生活中的家庭暴力。由于联邦家庭暴力方案，大多数州的福利计划允许领取福利的受虐妇女在强制要求工作之前有更多时间和专门服务，以保障她们及其子女的安全。然而，最近的研究和监测表明，大多数领取福利的受虐妇女并未向其福利工作者透露暴力情况。结束这些受虐妇女的孤立状态并为她们提供家庭暴力服务面临着艰巨挑战。女性健康服务提供者可能比福利部门人员更有能力完成这项任务。
