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The Effects of Domestic Violence on Infant Health Factors and Child Abuse Rates (Poster Session 5)

The Effects of Domestic Violence on Infant Health Factors
and Child Abuse Rates (Poster Session 5)

This session presents research findings from a home visiting child abuse prevention program. From January 1997 to January 2001, 2,073 at-risk mothers with first-born children participated in a home visiting child abuse prevention program for at least one year. Over the four-year period, the state's child protection agency confirmed child maltreatment in 23 (14 percent) of the 167 families assessed with domestic violence and 81 (4 percent) of the 1,906 families assessed as having no domestic violence. Domestic violence during pregnancy or the first eight weeks of child rearing was related significantly to confirmation of child abuse during the child's first four years and to several indices of poor infant health during the child's first year.

William McGuigan, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State University-Shenango
147 Shenango Avenue
Sharon, PA 16146

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Updated on February 24, 2010