Faculty Articles
Risk of death or life-threatening injury for women with children not sired by the abuser
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Human Nature
ISSN
1045-6767
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Abstract
Women who are abused by their male intimate partners incur many costs, ranging in severity from fleeting physical pain to death. Previous research has linked the presence of children sired by a woman's previous partner to increased risk of woman abuse and to increased risk of femicide. The current research extends this work by securing data from samples of 111 unabused women, 111 less severely abused women, 128 more severely abused women, and 26 victims of intimate partner femicide from the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study to document an ordinal trend in the risk of experiencing more severe forms of violence for women who have children in the household sired by a previous partner. The discussion addresses two potential explanations for this trend and highlights directions for future research.
DOI
10.1007/s12110-012-9129-9.
Volume
23
First Page
89
Last Page
97
NSUWorks Citation
Miner, E.,
Shackelford, T.
(2012). Risk of death or life-threatening injury for women with children not
sired by the abuser. Human Nature, 23, 89-97.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/1173
