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Article: Abused women's children have an increased risk of dying before age five.(Digests)
- Article from:
- International Family Planning Perspectives
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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Children of women who experience physical or sexual violence--whether before, during or after pregnancy--are significantly more likely to die before age five, according to a study in Leon, Nicaragua. (1) The odds of losing a child among women who had ever been physically or sexually abused by an intimate partner or a non-partner were two to four times as high as they were among women who had not been abused; women who had experienced both physical and sexual partner violence had an even higher risk of child loss.
To examine the association between violence against mothers and deaths among their children, the researchers searched a demographic database of nearly ...