Awareness and Detection of the Co-Occurrence of Interparental Violence and Child Abuse: Child Welfare Worker's Perspective

Using data generated from qualitative research on child welfare workers’ awareness of the cooccurrence of interparental violence and child abuse, this study showed that although social workers have a generally good awareness of the dynamics of domestic violence, only slightly more than half say they have systematically tried to detect marital violence in the cases assigned to them. The study is broached in the context of a large body of research showing that domestic violence and child abuse often coexist in the same household.