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JOURNAL OF FAMILY VIOLENCE
卷 38, 期 2, 页码 189-201出版社
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10896-022-00372-y
关键词
Family violence; COVID-19 pandemic; Gender; Sexual identity; Family stress theory
Evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in family violence, but there has been limited empirical research in this area. This study uses novel survey data to examine family violence during the early months of the pandemic in the United States. The findings show that sexual minorities, particularly bisexual individuals, experienced higher rates of family violence compared to heterosexual respondents. Only women reported an increase in the frequency of family violence. Household income loss was associated with the occurrence of verbal violence.
Evidence from victim service providers suggests the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in family violence. However, empirical evidence has been limited. This study uses novel survey data to investigate the occurrence of family violence during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Data come from the second wave of the Assessing the Social Consequences of COVID-19 study, an online non-probability sample collected in April and May 2020. Family violence is measured using four variables: any violence, physical violence, verbal abuse, and restricted access. The authors use logistic regression and KHB decomposition to examine the prevalence of family violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that sexual minorities, in particular bisexual people, experienced higher rates of family violence than heterosexual respondents. Women were the only group to report an increase in the frequency of family violence. Household income loss is associated with the incidence of verbal violence. Our findings demonstrate the importance of expanding victim services to address the additional barriers victims face within the pandemic context and beyond, including broad contexts of social isolation and financial precarity experienced by individuals at risk of family violence.
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