Childhood Family Violence Study

The purpose of the study is find out how childhood family violence influences intimate partner violence in a person relationships later in life and to refine intervention programs for those that are perpetrators of intimate partner violence. This is a micro-level study because it uses social learning theory to examine the how males that experience childhood family violence were more likely to use intimate partner violence than those that did not. The study is quantitative it uses a bivariate analysis to explore how childhood family effected the behaviors of men that were perpetrators of intimate partner violence. This study reaffirms what previous studies have found, in that witnessing inter-parental violence is more likely to cause someone to use intimate partner violence in their own relationships. The sample studied by Lee et al (2013) were men that had been arrested for domestic violence against a female …show more content…
Forty-seven percent of the respondents were black. The results showed that 71% of the sample had experience childhood family violence prior to being arrested for intimate partner violence. 59% of the sample reported having experience both maltreatment and witness inter-parental intimate partner violence. White reported having the high amount of childhood family violence at 82% compared to 67% for both black and Hispanic. Those with education beyond high school also reported having higher rates of childhood family violence at 81%, with less than high school at 68% and high school diploma at 65%. Those with childhood family problems had high drug and alcohol abuse problems and more instances of be arrested for fighting. Those with a history of childhood family violence had stronger adversarial sex beliefs and a greater desire to control their partners than those with no history of childhood family