The road to unfreedom : violence and multidimensional poverty among young Australian women

Campbell, Alice

The road to unfreedom : violence and multidimensional poverty among young Australian women Alice Campbell, Ella Kuskoff, Janeen Baxter and Deborah Loxton - Sage, 2025

Violence Against Women, 2025, First published online, 11 June 2025

Our study examined the cumulative impacts of violence from childhood through to adulthood on young women's multidimensional poverty risk. We analyzed six waves of data from the 1989–1995 birth cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (N = 11,224 women), estimating multinomial logistic regression and fixed-effects logistic regression models. Our measure of multidimensional poverty captured women's deprivations in material, education, employment, health, and social/relationship domains. Women exposed to violence in childhood were more likely to be in multidimensional poverty across young adulthood, and more likely to be revictimized at the hands of intimate partners. Coercive control significantly increased women's multidimensional poverty risk. (Authors' abstract). Record #9313


ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH)
COERCIVE CONTROL
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
PĀRURENGA
POVERTY
RISK FACTORS
TAITAMARIKI
TUAKOKA
TŪKINOTANGA Ā-WHĀNAU
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
WĀHINE
YOUNG PEOPLE
YOUNG WOMEN


INTERNATIONAL
AUSTRALIA