Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from January 2003

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from January 2003

Introduction.
January 1, 2003... In 1993, the Journal of Comparative Family Studies released a special issue on family violence with Richard J. Gelles as Guest Editor. The eight articles in the special issue were well received. Indeed, it has been an important issue for our...

Beyond power and control: towards an understanding of partner abusive men.
January 1, 2003... The twin concepts of "the integenerational transmission of domestic violence" and "the family as a training ground for domestic violence" have been staples of the domestic violence literature since they were popularized by Murray Straus and his...

The associations among male--perpetrated partner violence, wives' psychological distress and children's behavior problems: a structural equation modeling analysis.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Male-perpetrated partner violence is receiving increased clinical and research attention in recent years as awareness grows that violence within intimate relationships is a significant public health concern. It is...

Violence by children against mothers in relation to violence between parents and corporal punishment by parents *.
January 1, 2003... Children hitting mothers is a type of violence that has largely been ignored in research on violence against women. It is sometimes mentioned in clinical studies of battered women within the conceptual framework of a son following the battering...

Wife beating and the link with poor sexual health and risk behavior among men in urban slums in India *.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION There is growing awareness that domestic and sexual violence is a problem of public health significance worldwide (Heise et al., 1994). Most studies on violence in developing countries have interviewed women only and...

The cessation of assaults on wives *.(a study of domestic violence against women)
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION It is a common assertion among researchers of conjugal violence against women that, once begun, the violence continues, increasing in frequency and intensity over time until the woman is seriously injured or killed, or leaves...

The impact on subsequent violence of returning to an abusive partner *.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION In 1998, American women suffered 876,340 incidents of violent crime at the hands of their current or former spouses or boyfriends; this amounts to one instance of intimate violence every 36 seconds (Rennison and Welchans,...

Female and male medical students' exposure to violence: impact on well being and perceived capacity to help battered women *.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION My father beat me for the last time on the day I left home to attend medical school. Female medical student 1 What right do you have to ask me to talk to survivors of child abuse? I lived through that. Female medical...

The nature and extent of recurring intimate partner violence against women in the United States.
January 1, 2003... Literature on violence against women consistently reflects the notion that "Wife-beating is a pattern, not a single event, in most violent households" (Gelles, 1997). Seminal research by Straus and his colleagues (Straus et al., 1980) looked at...

Beyond power and control: towards an understanding of partner abusive men.
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT (French) II est bien connu que les enfants exposes a l'agression interparental aient des consequences defavorables graves dans I'enfance et dans leurs rapports intimes d'adulte. Ceux-ci incluent une foule de problemes emotifs et...

The associations among male--perpetrated partner violence, wives' psychological distress and children's behavior problems: a structural equation modeling analysis.
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT (French) L'objet de cette e'tude est tester un mod'ele familiale multivarie' afin de t'emoigner d'une comprehension des consequences de la violence conjugale commis par les hommes, en particulier les effets de la violence...

Wife beating and the link with poor sexual health and risk behavior among men in urban slums in India *.
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT (French) Les recherches recentes portant sur la violence domestique et sexuelle ont trouve un lien entre la violence et le risque augmente d'acquerir HIV et problemes avec la sante parmi les femmes. Cette analyse explore le lien...

The impact on subsequent violence of returning to an abusive partner *.
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT (French) Cet article examine les consequences, en termes de la violence ulterieure, d'un retour a un partenaire abusif. Afin d'isoler l'effet independant du depart sur la violence plus tard, nous utilisons la methode de moindre...

Female and male medical students' exposure to violence: impact on well being and perceived capacity to help battered women *.
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT (French) Les medecins sont tres importants vers la response de la societe a la violence contre la femme. Leur capacite professionnelle leur donne l'occasion a parler en prive avec les femmes, a identifier les victimes d'abus, et a...