Physical aggression toward boys and girls in families characterized by the battering of women.

Abstract

Forty-eight families (mothers and children) participated in a study on physical aggression toward boys and girls in households characterized by the battering of women. In each family, the mother had sought shelter because of relationship violence and had a son and daughter between 4 and 14 years. Mothers completed measures of physical marital violence directed at themselves, aggression toward children, and children's externalizing behavior problems. Older children completed measures of aggression directed at themselves. Results indicated that child gender moderates the relationship between the battering of women and aggression toward children. In families characterized by "more extreme" battering, boys were more often victims of aggression than girls, boys exhibited more externalizing problems than girls, and gender differences in externalizing problems helped account for the differential aggression directed at boys and girls.Children in families characterized by the battering of women are at risk for increased levels of physical parent-child aggression (Straus & Gelles, 1990;Straus, Gelles, & Steinmetz, 1980;Wolfe, 1988). However, even within families characterized by extreme battering, substantial variability exists in the level of aggression directed at children. Some children in such families are not physically victimized by their parents at all, whereas others are beaten frequently and severely (Jouriles, . Unfortunately, little data exist on factors associated with aggression toward children in families marked by the battering of

Relations of Parental Report and Observation of Parenting to Maltreatment History

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Alteraciones psicológicas en menores expuestos a violencia de género: prevalencia y diferencias de género y edad.

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