Risk factors for paternal physical child abuse

Lee, Shawna J.; Guterman, Neil B.; Lee, Yookyong

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2007.11.006

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“…In addition, only 25% of participants lived with both biological parents, indicating that fathers may not have been present in the daily lives of many of these children. This finding is consistent with a recent study that found no significant correlation between paternal employment and paternal child abuse (Lee, Guterman, & Lee, 2008). More research is needed to determine if fathers' employment status affects symptoms of child abuse survivors.…”

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Parental Employment Status and Symptoms of Children Abused during a Recession

Tobey

McAuliff

Rocha

2013

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse

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Incidences and severity of child abuse have increased since the start of the recession. This study examined the relationship between employment status and severity of symptoms in children abused during a recession year. Participants included 154 females and 65 males between 2 and 17 years old referred to Dallas Children's Advocacy Center after surviving child sexual abuse, physical abuse, and/or neglect. We found that child abuse survivors whose mothers were unemployed showed higher symptom severity. Larger differences were found when participants were broken down by age, ethnicity, and living situation. Father's employment status did not affect symptom severity probably because many children lived with single mothers. We concluded that child abuse survivors whose mothers are unemployed have increased risk for psychological symptoms.

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confidence: 94%

Parental Employment Status and Symptoms of Children Abused during a Recession

Tobey

McAuliff

Rocha

2013

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse

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“…However, prior studies of spanking that included fathers have generally examined predictors of fathers' spanking (Lee, Guterman, & Lee, 2008;Lee et al, 2011); fathers' spanking separately from mothers (Lee, Taylor, Altschul, & Rice, 2013;Prinzie et al, 2006); or did not examine the transactional nature of parent child interactions (Lee, Taylor, Altschul, & Rice, 2013). The current study is unique because the separate and simultaneous use of transactional models to examine fathers' and mothers' use of physical punishment permits us to identify whether fathers' use of spanking has any unique influence after accounting for mothers' spanking.…”

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confidence: 85%

Wait until your father gets home? Mother's and fathers’ spanking and development of child aggression

Lee

Altschul

Gershoff

2015

Children and Youth Services Review

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a b s t r a c t Keywords: Corporal punishment Physical punishment Fatherhood Child/ parent relationship Parental discipline Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing StudyThis study examined whether fathers' and mothers' spanking contributed to development of child aggression in the first 5 years of life. We selected parents (N =1,298) who were married or cohabiting across all waves of data collection. Cross-lagged path models examined fathers', mothers', and both parents' within-time and longitudinal associations between spanking and child aggression when the child was 1, 3, and 5 years of age. Results indicated that mothers spanked more than fathers. When examining fathers only, fathers' spanking was not associated with subsequent child aggression. When examining both parents concurrently, only mothers' spanking was predictive of subsequent child aggression. We found no evidence of multiplicative effects when testing interactions examining whether frequent spanking by either fathers or mothers was predictive of increases in children's aggression. This study suggests that the processes linking spanking to child aggression differ for mothers and fathers.

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“…One possible reason for this may be the criminalization of spanking and the cultural stigma associated with physical aggression toward children in Scandinavian countries (Modig, 2009). In the US, spanking is often culturally accepted and common (Lee, Guterman & Lee, 2008) and may evolve into more severe violence (Straus & Stewart, 1999). …”

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confidence: 99%

Parental reflective functioning in fathers who use intimate partner violence: Findings from a Norwegian clinical sample

Mohaupt

Duckert

2016

Nordic Psychology

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Few studies have examined fathering in an intimate partner violence (IPV) context outside the US. The present study included 36 Norwegian men who were voluntarily participating in therapy after perpetrating acts of IPV. They were interviewed with the revised Parent Development Interview, which is designed to assess parental reflective functioning (parental RF), and screened for alcohol- and substance-use habits and trauma history. At the group level, participants exhibited poor parental RF, high relational trauma scores, and elevated alcohol intake. Parental RF did not correlate with education level, alcohol or substance use, or compound measures of trauma history. There was a moderate negative relationship between having experienced physical abuse in childhood and parental RF.

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Risk factors for paternal physical child abuse

Cited by 55 publications

References 83 publications

Parental Employment Status and Symptoms of Children Abused during a Recession

Parental Employment Status and Symptoms of Children Abused during a Recession

Wait until your father gets home? Mother's and fathers’ spanking and development of child aggression

Parental reflective functioning in fathers who use intimate partner violence: Findings from a Norwegian clinical sample

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