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Peer reviewedRoscoe, Bruce; Benaske, Nancy – Family Relations, 1985
Investigated relationship between courtship violence and later spouse abuse in 82 women clients at domestic violence shelters. Examination of histories with regard to physical violence during childhood, courtship, and marriage demonstrated remarkable similarity between courtship and marital violence. Relationship violence rather than courtship or…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Dating (Social), Family Violence, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedDeMaris, Alfred; Swinford, Steven – Family Relations, 1996
Employed data from the National Family Violence Survey to explore predictors of fear of future abuse among married or cohabitating women (n=356) whose partners abused them. Fear was higher in women whose partners initiated the violence; subjected them to forced sex or; made them afraid to retaliate in violence. (SNR)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Battered Women, Family Environment, Family Violence
