World J Psychiatry Ment Health Res | Volume 5, Issue 1 | Research Article | Open Access
Yuping Cao1, Yue Chen1,2, Guoyi Guo2, Guoqiang Wang3, Qiao Mao4, Yong Zhang5, Lihong Jiang6, Ding Yuan7, Mengxi Zhang8* and Xingguang Luo9
1Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University; The China National Clinical
Research Center for Mental Health Disorders; National Technology Institute of Psychiatry; Key Laboratory of
Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, Changsha, China
2Xiangtan Medicine & Health Vocational College, Xiangtan, China
3Wuxi Mental Health Center, Wuxi, China
4Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, People’s Hospital of Deyang City, Deyang, Sichuan, China
5Tianjin Mental Health Center, Tianjin, China
6Mental Hospital of Chenzhou, Chenzhou, China
7Dongguan Mental Health Center, Dongguan, China
8Department of Geriatric, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
9Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
*Correspondance to: Mengxi Zhang
Fulltext PDFChinese one-child policy has been practiced for more than 30 years. With the policy that one couple can have two children being fully implemented from January 01st, 2016 in China, the families with two or more children are increasing, and the family size, family structure and family relationship has been largely changed. Little is known about the difference in Domestic Violence (DV) among single- and multi-child families in China. This study compared the prevalence, causes, patterns, consequence of DV and the attitude towards DV among single-child and multi-child families in the same communities between ten years in China. Epidemiological surveys were conducted among single-child and multi-child families in the same communities during the period of 2001 to 2002 (group 2002) for 9,451 families and 2011 to 2012 (group 2012) for 6,859 families, respectively. The same investigation methods, questionnaires and investigators were used in the two surveys. The findings indicated that the child abuse has been increasing, and the child education being the issue has climbed to the top in multi-child families. The negative attitude towards DV stayed the same in both single- and multi-child families. It is suggested that the intervention strategies on DV should be adjusted to the new situations, especially with the arrival of more multi-child families in current China.
China; Domestic violence; Single-child family; Multi-child family
Cao Y, Chen Y, Guo G, Wang G, Mao Q, Zhang Y, et al. Domestic Violence in Single- and Multi-Child Families in China: A Ten-Year Comparison in the Same Communities. World J Psychiatry Ment Health Res. 2021; 5(1): 1029.