Domestic Violence Travels Down Through Generations, Study Finds - US News and World Report
, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) — The risk of domestic violence often is passed from parents to their children, a new study finds.
Researchers analyzed data from more than 1,600 American families and found that nearly four out of five families in which parents were involved with intimate-partner violence had adult children who committed violence against partners, and three-quarters of those families had adult children who became victims of domestic violence.
“These families, unfortunately, were not able to break the cycle of violence,” study author Kelly Knight, an assistant professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University, in Huntsville, Texas, said in a university news release.
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