School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, 4006, Australia.
School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, 4006, Australia; School of Social Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia.
Child Abuse Negl. 2018 Aug;82:23-33. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.05.017. Epub 2018 May 28.
There is some limited evidence of an association between maternal intimate partner victimization (IPV) and children's experience of maltreatment. Using data from a longitudinal study, we examine whether this relationship is independent of range of potential confounders including socio-economic, familial and psychological factors. Data were taken from the 14 and 30-year follow-ups of the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (MUSP) in Australia. A subsample of 2064 mothers and children (59.0% female) whose data on maternal IPV and child maltreatment was available, were analysed. In families with maternal IPV, two in five children reported being maltreated, compared to one in five children maltreated in families without maternal IPV. Except for sexual maltreatment which was consistently higher in female offspring, there was no gender differences in experiencing different types of maltreatment in families manifesting maternal IPV. Although both males and females were at increased risk of child maltreatment in families where mothers were victimized by their male partners, male children were more likely to be emotionally maltreated. The main associations were substantially independent of measured confounders, except for father's history of mental health problems which attenuated the association of maternal IPV victimization and male offspring's physical abuse. Our findings confirm that there is a robust association between maternal IPV and child maltreatment. Both maternal IPV victimization and child maltreatment co-occur in a household characterized by conflict and violence. Consequences of IPV go beyond the incident and influence all family members. Efforts to reduce child maltreatment may need to address the greater level of IPV associated with the cycle of family violence.
有一些有限的证据表明，母亲遭受亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）与儿童遭受虐待之间存在关联。本研究利用一项纵向研究的数据，检验了这种关联是否独立于一系列潜在的混杂因素，包括社会经济、家庭和心理因素。数据来自澳大利亚的 Mater-昆士兰大学妊娠研究（MUSP）的 14 年和 30 年随访。分析了 2064 名母亲及其子女（59.0%为女性）的数据，这些数据包括母亲遭受 IPV 和儿童虐待的情况。在有母亲遭受 IPV 的家庭中，五分之二的儿童报告遭受虐待，而在没有母亲遭受 IPV 的家庭中，五分之一的儿童遭受虐待。除了性虐待在女性后代中始终较高外，在表现出母亲 IPV 的家庭中，经历不同类型虐待的儿童在性别上没有差异。尽管母亲遭受其男性伴侣的暴力侵害的家庭中，男性和女性儿童遭受儿童虐待的风险都增加了，但男童更有可能受到情感虐待。除了父亲有心理健康问题的历史会削弱母亲遭受 IPV 受害与男性子女遭受身体虐待之间的关联外，主要关联在很大程度上独立于测量的混杂因素。我们的研究结果证实了母亲遭受 IPV 与儿童虐待之间存在强有力的关联。在以冲突和暴力为特征的家庭中，母亲遭受 IPV 受害和儿童虐待同时发生。IPV 的后果不仅限于事件本身，还会影响所有家庭成员。减少儿童虐待的努力可能需要解决与家庭暴力循环相关的更高水平的 IPV 问题。
