Understanding Female Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration, Parenting Attitudes, and Batterer Intervention Program Completion

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of parenting attitudes and widely used indicators of intimate partner violence perpetration on program completion in a sample of women required to attend a 26-week batterer intervention program. Methods: This research utilized a non-equivalent, control-group design in a secondary analysis of 146 women. Results: Analysis showed that: (1) logistic regression indicated a statistically significant model for predicting AAPI-2 scores using level of education and racial group; (2) logistic regression also demonstrated that treatment completion could be successfully predicted by CTS2 Negotiation score and referral status (e.g. regular court, criminal domestic violence court and pretrial intervention). Conclusions: These analyses illustrate characteristics of female batterers as they connect to parenting attitudes and offer initial evidence suggesting that women in treatment for IPV perpetration display a host of negative parenting attitudes. Implications of these results were investigated and considered.

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