Citation

Simmons CA, Craun SW, Farrar M, Ray R. Violence Against Women 2017; 23(13): 1563-1584.

Affiliation

Exchange Club Family Center of the Mid-South, Memphis, TN, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801216663656

PMID

27601176

Abstract

Reports from 297 mother-child dyads were compared to explore concurrence in relation to violence committed by the father on specific high-risk items and in terms of general risk to the mother and to the child using composite measures.

RESULTS indicated the majority of the mother-child dyads report similar risk using eight individual items (60.9%-77.1%) and on the composite measures (61.9% and 54.2%). However, concordance was lower than anticipated.

FINDINGS highlight the importance of not simply relying on parental report but instead obtaining the child's report about their own exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) in clinical, research, and forensic applications.

© The Author(s) 2016.

Language: en