@article{ref1,
title="Association between intergenerational violence exposure and maternal age of menopause",
journal="Menopause",
year="2022",
author="Foster, Holly and Hagan, John and Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne and Garcia, Jess",
volume="29",
number="3",
pages="284-292",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether maternal violence exposure personally and through her child is associated with an earlier age of menopause, controlling for covariates. <br><br>METHODS: Analyses used merged data from two related sources. Although mothers (n = 1,466) were interviewed in 1995 and then 20 years later (2015-17), their children were interviewed in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health repeatedly (Waves 1-4, 1994/5 to 2008-2009). Mothers reported their own age of menopause, and mothers and adolescents each reported their own exposure to violence as children and adults. <br><br>RESULTS: A mother's own childhood physical abuse (b = -1.60, P < .05) and her child's sexual abuse (b = -1.39, P < .01) both were associated with an earlier age of menopause. Mothers who were physically abused in childhood and have a child who experienced regular sexual abuse reached menopause 8.78 years earlier than mothers without a history of personal abuse or abuse of their child. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Our study is the first to find that age of natural menopause is associated with intergenerational violence exposures.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1072-3714",
doi="10.1097/GME.0000000000001923",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GME.0000000000001923"
}