@article{ref1,
title="Critiquing the Case for Marriage Promotion: How the Promarriage Movement Misrepresents Domestic Violence Research",
journal="Violence against women",
year="2004",
author="Catlett, Beth S. and Artis, Julie E.",
volume="10",
number="11",
pages="1226-1244",
abstract="This article argues that governmental policies to promote marriage fail to recognize the reality of domestic violence in many families' lives. By minimizing and misrepresenting the role of domestic violence, these policies ultimately are self-defeating. After describing the recent history of welfare reform and marriage promotion policies, we briefly review the arguments advanced in favor of such policies. We then offer a critique of marriage promotion through the prism of social science research on domestic violence and explain how advocates largely ignore or misrepresent this research. Finally, we discuss the need to ground policy formation in the voices of those women whose lives such policies ultimately will affect. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Violence Against Women, 2004. Copyright © 2004 by SAGE Publications)Violence Against WomenPartner ViolenceDomestic Violence CausesDomestic Violence VictimSpouse Abuse CausesSpouse Abuse VictimVictimization CausesMarriage PromotionWelfare ReformAdult FemaleAdult VictimFemale VictimAdult MaleAdult OffenderAdult ViolenceMale OffenderMale ViolenceDomestic Violence OffenderSpouse Abuse Offender09-04<p />",
language="en",
issn="1077-8012",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}