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- Title
Physical Violence Toward Pregnant Women Is More Likely to Occur When Pregnancy Was Unintended.
- Authors
Donovan, P.
- Abstract
This article presents a study of more than 12,000 mothers in four U.S. states which found that women whose pregnancy is unwanted or mistimed are four times as likely as women with an unintended pregnancy to be physically hurt by their husband or partner. Regardless of whether the pregnancy is unwanted, mistimed or unwanted, violence is more common among women who are socially less advantaged (in terms of education, age, marital status and living conditions, for example) than among advantaged women. Nevertheless, the association between physical violence and unwantedness appears to be greater among more socially advantaged women. Data on violence and pregnancy intendedness were obtained from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), a state-specific, population-based survey of new mothers 3-6 months after their child's birth. The analysis was based on responses from 12,612 new mothers in Alaska, Maine, Oklahoma and West Virginia who participate din PRAMS in 1990-1991. The PRAMS questionnaire asked women is they had been physically hurt by their husband or partner during the 12 months prior to delivery. It also asked women to recall the time just before they became pregnant and to describe how they felt about becoming pregnant.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNWANTED pregnancy; VIOLENCE; WOMEN; PREGNANCY; MOTHERS
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 5, p222
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2136282