The Bulletin
Men's Weekly


.

Almost 9 in 10 young Australians who use family violence experienced child abuse: new research

  • Written by Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre; Associate Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Almost 9 in 10 young Australians who use family violence experienced child abuse: new researchShutterstock

How prevalent is young people’s use of family violence in Australia, what form does it take and how does it intersect with experiences of child abuse? These were the key questions we set out to investigate in our new study, which is the first of its kind in Australia.

Funded by Australia’s National Research Organisation for...

Read more: Almost 9 in 10 young Australians who use family violence experienced child abuse: new research