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In 2005, the U.S. had 900,000 substantiated cases of child maltreatment, with the highest rates in children aged 3 years and younger. Intimate partner violence (IPV) has historically been linked to child abuse and neglect by the perpetrator, often assumed to be the father or other male figure in the home. To learn the extent to which IPV coincides with maternal child abuse and neglect, researchers focused on a subgroup from a longitudinal prospective study that had oversampled high-risk families (i.e., births were nonmarital).
There were 2508 mothers with 3-year-old children and current partners (the child’s biological father in 76% of the families). The mothers reported committing an average of 25 acts of psychological aggression and 17 act…