Nearly 50 Years of Child Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence Empirical Research: Evidence Mapping, Overarching Themes, and Future Directions

Holmes, Megan R.; Berg, Kristen A.; Bender, Anna E.; Evans, Kylie; O’Donnell, Kari A.; Miller, Emily

doi:10.1007/s10896-021-00349-3

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“…To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to use official police records of both parental verbal arguments and IPV‐related offences to map the longitudinal pattern of exposure and the association with adolescent‐to‐mother family violence offending and other adverse childhood outcomes (Holmes et al, 2022). By including NSWPF‐reported verbal arguments, as well as all reported P‐IPV incidents in which a parent was recorded as a victim, or the adolescent as a child‐at‐risk, as the measure of P‐IPV exposure, the current study found that children were exposed to P‐IPV from a younger age ( M age at first exposure = 3.28 years) than previously reported (Orr et al, 2021; M age = 6.21 years).…”

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Process mining the trajectories for adolescent‐to‐mother violence from longitudinal police and health service data

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East

et al. 2022

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aim:The aim was to discover longitudinal trajectories and patterns of events preceding adolescent-to-mother family violence in a geographic locale in Australia.Design: This was a retrospective case series.Methods: Routinely collected administrative data were sourced and linked from police and health service electronic records for adolescents born between 1994 and 2006 who had been issued a legal action for a family violence-related offence (n = 775). A time-stamped log of events from birth (where available) was created. Process mining was employed to discover dominant events and trajectories in the log from birth until adolescents' first recorded offence against their mother.Results/Findings: Most adolescents in the case series offended against mothers (63%, n = 486). Trajectory analysis confirmed dominant early childhood events were repeated exposure to parental intimate partner violence (P-IPV), parental drug and/or alcohol use and neglect. During early adolescence, pathways towards adolescent-tomother violence involved other offending, drug and/or alcohol use and mental health service contact. Conclusion:The trajectories evidenced provide a complex picture of the emergence of adolescent-to-mother violence. From an early intervention perspective, it was found that many children and mothers were identifiable from police records in early childhood, at an average age of 35 months. Responses to adolescent family violence need to acknowledge the impact of childhood trauma and emerging mental health problems, along with strategies to mitigate the effect of P-IPV on mother-to-child relationships.Impact: This is the first large-scale study to specifically examine trajectories from birth for adolescents who engage in violence towards mothers. The findings have important implications for the design and delivery of early intervention childhood services and interagency collaboration in nursing and midwifery services. In early adolescence, contact with mental health services represents an opportunity for screening and support interventions. This is an important preventive timepoint for family violence, adolescent drug and alcohol use and other offences.

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Process mining the trajectories for adolescent‐to‐mother violence from longitudinal police and health service data

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Provost

East

et al. 2022

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…Interestingly, however, the current study found that exposure to parental IPV and other family violence related victimization was not a significant predictor of the frequency of adolescent to parent violence re-offending. By examining the combined frequency of IPV exposure and family violence victimization, across a multi-year period, the current study aimed to advance evidence within the IPV exposure research field, which to date has relied heavily on the use of self-report data and binary yes/no measures to elucidate the prevalence of parental IPV exposure in early childhood (Holmes et al, 2022; Margolin, 2005). The failure to find a significant association between parental IPV exposure and adolescent to parent violence recidivism is consistent with several studies exploring the predictive association between family violence exposure and general juvenile recidivism (Aguilar Ruiz & Pereda, 2021; Ferguson et al, 2009; Shaw, 2019) but not supportive of others where a predictive association was established (García-España et al, 2011; Holmes et al, 2015).…”

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Evidencing Predictors of Adolescent to Parent Violence Re-Offending Through Linkage of Police and Health Records

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Hutchinson

Provost

2022

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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Current knowledge about the characteristics of adolescents involved in recidivist adolescent to parent violence offending remains limited. This study employed more than 50,000 linked administrative police (from birth) and health (from age five) data events to examine predictors of adolescent to parent violence recidivism in a geographically-distinct case series of 775 Australian adolescents. The predictive association between adverse childhood experiences, health and police involvement related characteristics and frequency of recidivism was found to vary by sex and level of exposure to parental intimate partner violence. Events occurring before an adolescent’s first offence, including sustained exposure to adverse childhood events and IPV exposure combined with sexual offence victimization, amplified the frequency of re-offending. Developmental life-course trajectories involving family violence verbal arguments, and other antisocial behaviors in mid to late adolescence, had a stronger predictive association with the frequency of re-offending. These results highlighted several key intervention points with adolescents and families across the life course.

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“…These negative impacts of IPV in childhood do not necessarily manifest at the time of exposure but can develop over time (Holmes, 2013; Holmes et al., 2015). The developmental trajectory following IPV exposure can depend on a variety of risk and resilience factors (i.e., parenting, parent mental health, and child temperament) and importantly, the developmental period in which a child is exposed (Fogarty et al., 2019; Holmes, 2013; Holmes et al., 2022).…”

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“…IPV whether directly witnessed or not by children can have deleterious impacts on all domains of functioning and increase risk for mental health issues across the life course. This includes higher rates of depression, anxiety, post‐traumatic stress reactions, behavioral difficulties, lower levels of cognitive functioning, and peer problems such as bullying and victimization (Fogarty et al., 2019; Gartland et al., 2021; Holmes et al., 2022; Lee et al., 2022; Savopoulos et al., 2022; Vu et al., 2016; Wood & Sommers, 2011). Across the different studies, the ages of IPV exposure varied, with less attention on early‐life exposure.…”

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Intimate partner violence exposure during infancy and social functioning in middle childhood: An Australian mother and child cohort study

Schulz,

Wood,

Fogarty

et al. 2023

Child Development

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Social functioning of children with experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) between caregivers in early childhood has received less attention than emotional–behavioral outcomes. Drawing on data from 1507 ten‐year‐old Australian‐born children and their mothers participating in a community‐based longitudinal study, this study examined the associations between IPV exposure during infancy and social development during middle childhood. IPV during the first 12 months of life was associated with lower social skills, higher peer problems, and peer victimization at age 10 years, while accounting for concurrent IPV. This study provides evidence for the long‐term impacts of early‐life IPV exposure on children's social functioning, and the importance of prevention and early intervention programs focused on social development following experiences of IPV.

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Nearly 50 Years of Child Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence Empirical Research: Evidence Mapping, Overarching Themes, and Future Directions

Cited by 28 publications

References 64 publications

Process mining the trajectories for adolescent‐to‐mother violence from longitudinal police and health service data

Process mining the trajectories for adolescent‐to‐mother violence from longitudinal police and health service data

Evidencing Predictors of Adolescent to Parent Violence Re-Offending Through Linkage of Police and Health Records

Intimate partner violence exposure during infancy and social functioning in middle childhood: An Australian mother and child cohort study

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