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Citation

Forssell AM, Cater. J. Fam. Violence 2015; 30(3): 339-349.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10896-015-9673-2

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Despite the well-documented negative consequences for children experiencing violence perpetrated by their fathers against their mothers, little is known about how characteristics of exposure to violence are related to child-father contact after parental separation. In this study, we (a) describe contact patterns between children and fathers after parental separation and (b) analyze links between patterns of violence and contact in a sample of child witnesses to intimate partner violence in Sweden. Information about 165 children (aged 3-13 years) was obtained from their mothers, who had been subjected to violence by the child's father. In 60 % of the cases, the parents had joint custody.

RESULTS suggest that children without contact with their father have witnessed more violence than children with contact. However, when they do have contact, previous violence against the mother does not correlate either with amount or type of child-father contact. Instead, high socioeconomic status and negotiation skills correlated positively with amount of contact.


Language: en

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