TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - Welfare Reform, Domestic Violence, and Employment: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?
JO  - Violence against women
A1  - Riger, Stephanie
A1  - Staggs, Susan L.
SP  - 961
EP  - 990
VL  - 10
IS  - 9
N2  - Welfare reforms enacted in 1996 require that recipients work to receive benefits. Advocates for battered women feared that abusive men would escalate violence in response to independence brought to women by employment. Yet research on employment, domestic violence, and welfare reform has yielded mixed findings. The authors review those findings and propose that a context-sensitive social-psychological perspective identifying relevant dimensions of culture and measuring partner’s employment may be more useful than a focus only on characteristics of women. Findings suggest that inclusion of generous work supports in welfare legislation may help reduce poverty and domestic violence.<p />
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SN  - 1077-8012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801204267464
ID  - ref1
ER  -