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Researchers have suggested that intimate partner violence experience (IPV) is associated with both early and unintended childbearing. However, since IPV and early and unintended parenthood are concentrated among young women and men, this association may not be causal. Using the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS), we examined whether IPV experience was related to early and unintended parenthood by age 25 for women and men (n = 811). Women and men who previously experienced intimate partner violence were no more likely to enter parenthood by age 25 than those individuals who had not previously experienced intimate partner violence. Further, prior IPV experience was not associated with an increased probability of unintended parenthood. Results suggested that rather than a causal relationship, prior IPV experience and unintended parenthood both occur in young adulthood. This work has implications for policy and programmatic foci of both unintended parenthood and intimate partner violence prevention initiatives.
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This research was supported by grants from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD036223 and HD044206), the Department of Health and Human Services (5APRPA006009), the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U. S. Department of Justice (Award Nos. 2009-IJ-CX-0503 and 2010-MU-MU-0031), and in part by the Center for Family and Demographic Research, Bowling Green State University, which has core funding from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD050959). The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, or Department of Justice.
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Landeis, M., Guzzo, K.B., Manning, W.D., Longmore, M.A., Giordano, P.C. (2023). The Influence of Intimate Partner Violence on Early and Unintended Parenthood. In: Schoen, R. (eds) The Demography of Transforming Families. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol 56. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29666-6_13
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