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Paper examines the link between contemporary family structures and verbal and forced sexual victimization.
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29 p.
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Abstract: Scholarship continues to emphasize the importance of family structure when examining social determinants of sexual victimization. What is less understood, however, is the role contemporary family structures play in life sexual victimization. Therefore, this study examines the link between contemporary family structures and two forms of sexual victimization, verbal and forced. Our independent variables are family (parental) structure, childhood parent involvement, current parent-child relationships, and family history. Findings from our analysis indicate that there is no difference between respondents with same-sex-parents, adoptive parents, and step-parent family structures when compared to those with two parent families. Results also indicate that risk of verbal coercion increased for single parent structures and risk of both verbal coercion and physical force increased for divorced parent family structures when compared to respondents in two parent families. Our results suggest increased parental involvement, close parent-child relationships, and family history all decrease the risk for both forms of victimization.
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The Eagle Feather
Launched in 2004 by UNT's Honors College, The Eagle Feather was an interdisciplinary undergraduate research journal that promoted the work of students and their faculty mentors. The Eagle Feather was published annually until 2017 when it transitioned into the North Texas Journal of Undergraduate Research.
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