Table 3.
Childhood Abuse Experience Reported by Mothers With Separations (n = 97).
| Physical | Sexual | Verbal/emotional | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Reporting type of abuse | 25 | 26 | 16 | 17 | 21 | 22 |
| Age at start of abuse, M (SD) | 12.57 (4.78) | 10.39 (5.11) | 12.45 (4.54) | |||
| Age at end of abuse, M (SD) | 16.33 (4.22) | 11.82 (5.73) | 17.21 (5.30) | |||
| Multiple perpetrators | 3 | 12 | 5 | 19 | 3 | 14 |
| Relationship of perpetratora | ||||||
| Father/stepfather/father-in-law | 5 | 18 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 21 |
| Mother/stepmother/mother-in-law | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Sibling/stepsibling | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Partner/spouse/ex | 12 | 43 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 42 |
| Other | 7 | 25 | 18 | 86 | 7 | 29 |
a
Relationship of perpetrator is percentage of those reporting that type of abuse, including multiple perpetrators, that is, percentage of each violent event.