Journal article
Exposure to Inter-Parental Conflict Across 10 Years of Childhood: Data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
EM Westrupp, N Rose, JM Nicholson, SJ Brown
Maternal and Child Health Journal | SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS | Published : 2015
Abstract
Rates of child exposure to inter-parental conflict are high and appear to be increasing, with at least one million Australian children affected annually. To-date, there is no established prevalence for inter-parental conflict that includes the more common but less severe forms for young families in the wider Australian community. The current study aims were to examine the prevalence, persistence, and the individual, family and socio-economic context of inter-parental conflict. Data were from four waves of the Baby (n = 4,898) and Kindergarten (n = 4,182) cohorts of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. Verbal and physical inter-parental conflict was measured using the Argumentative ..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This paper uses unit record data from Growing Up in Australia, the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. The study is conducted in partnership between the Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS, formerly, the department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs), the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The findings reported in this paper are those of the authors and should not be attributed to DSS, AIFS or the ABS. The Parenting Research Centre is supported by funding from the Victorian Government, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute receives funding from the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. EW was supported by the NHMRC-funded Centre of Research Excellence in Child Language (#1023493); SB is supported by an ARC Future Fellowship. We thank all parents and children who took part in the study.