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Life Histories of Rural Mexican American Adolescents Experiencing Abuse

Jane Dimmitt Champion

Department of Family Nursing, The University of Texas Science Center at San Antonio, TX.

Histories of family violence are predictors of adolescent acceptance of interpersonal violence within intimate relationships. This study focused on the progression of abusive relationships from childhood to courtship and intimacy among 40 rural Mexican American adolescents in the southwestern United States. Emphasis was on interactions that were extensions of cultural expectations for intimacy, family, and sex roles. Within these life histories, transgenerational patterns of violence were found in patterns of learning, loving and belonging through past and present relationships. Sex-role identification with abusive behavior occurred across generations, emulating roles from the past and perpetuating expectations for abuse as part of intimacy. Previous abusive experiences were described as motivation for behavioral change, yet, within the patterns of learning, loving, and belonging in relationships, patterns of abuse and behaviors similar to the family of origin were found. An understanding of the influential role attitudes and expectations of abused individuals and their families has on behavior is relevant for interventions preventing existent and future abuse.

Western Journal of Nursing Research, Vol. 21, No. 5, 699-717 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/01939459922044135
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