Prevalence of Child Maltreatment and the Effects of the Intergenerational Transmission of Violence on Attitudes towards Domestic Violence in Chinese Police Cadets

Author(s):  
Brittany E. Hayes ◽  
Eric J. Connolly ◽  
Xinting Wang ◽  
Camille Ingham ◽  
Makayla Mason
2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Baker

Although research into parent abuse is scant in the context of the UK, there is now a burgeoning of interest into how this form of family violence fits into the historically well-defined arena of domestic violence research. This article investigates one aspect of the phenomena of parent abuse; that is, how teenage boys, who are often perceived as perpetrators of such violence due to problematic ‘cycle of violence’ or ‘intergenerational transmission of violence’ theories, are constructed in relation to it. These now widely discredited theories, which correlate being a man with being violent, are problematic, but may re-emerge as a possible explanation for parent abuse. This article questions these theories in the context of both domestic violence and parent abuse by demonstrating how they are based upon a culturally constructed notion of masculinity.


2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Sullivan-Wilson ◽  
Barbara Bonner ◽  
Tricia Gardner ◽  
Susan Schmidt

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110374
Author(s):  
Ruixin Cao ◽  
Hechun Li ◽  
Huiping Zhang

Despite a large population of registered people with drug addiction, child protection in substance-abusing families is a neglected issue in China. The present study aims to investigate the association between parents’ childhood abuse history and the risk of abusing their own children in substance-abusing Chinese families and also to examine the mediating role of detachment and moderating role of social support during the intergenerational transmission of abuse. A total of 173 men and 116 women were selected using cluster sampling from two compulsory drug rehabilitation centers in Jiangsu Province. Results indicated that one’s childhood abuse history was positively associated with the current perpetration of child abuse for both fathers and mothers. Detachment mediated the linkage between a history of childhood maltreatment and perpetration of child abuse in all types of abuse for both men and women except for women’s sexual abuse. Social support from family members buffered the intergenerational transmission of child abuse for fathers but not for mothers. Child maltreatment in substance-abusing families is an urgent issue that needs measures to prevent the intergenerational transmission of violence in China. Intervention programs could involve helping parents cope with their childhood abuse history through rebuilding secure attachment and facilitating social support for their parenting practices, especially for fathers.


2018 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan G. Victor ◽  
Andrew Grogan-Kaylor ◽  
Joseph P. Ryan ◽  
Brian E. Perron ◽  
Terri Ticknor Gilbert

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. e0232792
Author(s):  
Renate S. M. Buisman ◽  
Katharina Pittner ◽  
Marieke S. Tollenaar ◽  
Jolanda Lindenberg ◽  
Lisa J. M. van den Berg ◽  
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Author(s):  
Izaskun Ibabe ◽  
Ainara Arnoso ◽  
Edurne Elgorriaga

The exposure of adult children to inter-parental violence is an indirect form of victimization which has not been widely investigated in relation to its consequences in adulthood. The main goal of this study was to analyze predictors of dating violence based on an integrated model of intergenerational transmission of violence with the assessment of potential indirect effects of inter-parental violence exposure on dating violence through child-to-parent violence and sexism. A total of 847 college students participated in this study, ranging from 18 to 25 years of age. Inter-parental violence exposure plays a relevant role in dating violence, with indirect effects through child-to-parent violence and sexism. These results support social learning theory in explaining the intergenerational transmission of violence and indicate that further attention should be paid to children exposed to inter-parental violence. Intervention models to prevent the perpetration of dating violence should include the prevention of inter-parental violence exposure and child-to-parent violence.


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