Re: financial stress and family violence

["Murray A. Straus" <mas2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are some findings on this issue in the following papers,  both of
which are available from the Family Research Lab if you library does not
have them.

Straus, Murray A. and Glenda Kaufman Kantor
  *VA20R  1987  "Stress and Physical Child Abuse."  Child Abuse and Neglect,
4:75-88 and in Ray E. Helfer and C. Henry Kempe (eds.), The Battered
Child, 4th Edition. University of Chicago Press. (Revision of paper
originally published
in the third edition of this book.)  $1.50
Straus, Murray A.

  *VA16  1980  "Social Stress and Marital Violence in a National Sample of
American Families."  In Fred Wright, Charles Bahn and Robert W. Rieber
(eds.),  Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry, Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences 347:229-250.  Also in Straus and Gelles (1990)
Physical Violence in American Families.  $1.50.



Murray A. Straus, Professor of Sociology
& Co-Director,  Family Research Laboratory
University of New Hampshire,  Durham, NH 03824
Phone:  603 862-2594   Fax:  603 862-1122
E-mail  MAS2@CHRISTA.UNH.EDU

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-----Original Message-----
From: Marney Thomas <mgt2@cornell.edu>
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: financial stress and family violence


>Thank you for taking the time to send this forward. Everyone seems to be in
>the same situation, a hunch that it is related, lots of anecdotal
>information and NO published research.
>
>
>At 07:23 PM 11/6/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>Dr. Thomas:
>>
>>In "Marital Instability: A Social and Behavioral Study of the Early
>>Years"  Veroff, Hatchett, and Dovan (1995) found economic hardship to be
>>significantly correlated with marital instability among their African
>>American cohort. While the issue of family violence is not addressed per
>>se in this longitudinal study, related issues such as feelings of
>>inadequacy, perceived and tangible unequal power structures in the context
>>of society and marriage, and other stressors are discussed.
>>
>>Shirley Hatchett, Ph.D, is Professor of Sociology here at the University
>>of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and may be able to direct you to
>>additional research.
>>
>>My apologies for the late response to your October 15 post.
>>
>>******************************************
>>Michelle A. Johnson
>>Graduate Research Assistant
>>Children and Family Research Center
>>School of Social Work
>>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>>1203 West Oregon Street
>>Urbana, Illinois 61801
>>(217)244-4543
>>majohns2@students.uiuc.edu
>>******************************************
>>
>>On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Marney Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know of any empirical work (published or unpublished) that
has
>>> specifically examined the relationship between financial management
(i.e.,
>>> how couples resolve conflicts around money, budgets, expenses, etc.) and
>>> severe marital conflict/spouse abuse?
>>> Marney Thomas, Ph.D.
>>> Family Life Development Center
>>> MVR Hall
>>> Cornell University
>>> Ithaca, NY 14853
>>> Phone: 607-254-5241
>>> Fax: 607-255-4837
>>>
>>> mailto:mgt2@cornell.edu
>>>
>>
>>