Journal of epidemiology and community health
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J Epidemiol Community Health · Jul 2009
Exposure to interparental violence and psychosocial maladjustment in the adult life course: advocacy for early prevention.
Early family-level and social-level stressors are both assumed to be the components of two main path models explaining the association between exposure to interparental violence in childhood and its long-term consequences on mental health explored through life-course epidemiological studies. ⋯ The adult consequences of parental violence in childhood-and this independently of the other forms of domestic violence and the related psychosocial risks-should lead to intensifying the prevention of and screening for this form of maltreatment of children.