Divorce and Domestic Violence Among African American Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19464976 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olga Molina (a DC 37 Municipal Employees , Legal Services Plan , 125 Barclay Street, New York, NY, 10007, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 131-141 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Divorce & Remarriage (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1050-2556 • E-ISSN: 1540-4811 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j087v34n01_08 |
| OpenAlex | W2268185785 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
This paper reports a study of African American divorced working women who received both legal and social work services at a pre-paid labor union legal services program. Thirty women were interviewed face-to-face to explore and describe the pre-divorce, divorce and post-divorce phases from the women's perspectives. Forty percent of the women were battered wives. The abuse reported included verbal, mental, sexual, financial and physical forms of abuse. The findings demonstrate a marked improvement from the pre-divorce to post-divorce phase of emotional divorce adjustment. The women went from feeling isolated, ambivalent, with a low self-esteem during the pre-divorce phase to intense feelings of ambivalence, fear, loss and anger during the divorce action. By the post-divorce phase, 90% of the women reported feelings of happiness, freedom and higher self-esteem
Ambivalence · Anger · Domestic violence · Feeling · Happiness · Poison control · Sexual abuse · Suicide prevention · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Homelessness and Social Issues · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0.19 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2013 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |