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Currently? 3. When You Were Pregnant Did Anyone Ever Physically Hurt You? 4. ...

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3. When you were pregnant did anyone ever physically hurt you?
4. Are you in a relationship with someone who yells at you, calls you names, or puts you down?


7 out of 8 women said they had been in a relationship where they were threatened or hurt
3 out of 8 women said they were currently in a violent relationship
6 women who said they had been abused while pregnant, which implies that their children could have been born into a domestically violent household.
6 out of 8 women said they were in an emotionally abusive relationship
These statistics for the Fulham area are quite high. Nearly half of respondents said they had experienced prolonged domestic abuse. It would be useful to conduct a further study on another random sample to see if the two sets of results would correlate. Because under half the sample returned the questionnaires it cannot be said to be a representative sample of the Fulham area. Nonetheless the findings do give a surprising insight into the lives of black women in London, showing that abuse, in any form, is a regular occurrence in some people's lives. Furthermore, because these respondents had children it is likely that their children have witnessed domestic violence. Future research might look into establishing a comparison study on 20 women who do not have children in an attempt to see whether more cases of abuse occur within relationships where children are present.
Questionnaire on teenagers.
Of the 20 forms which were filled in 9 respondents said they had been involved in or witnessed cases of domestic violence in their lifetime.
1. Have you ever been involved in or witnessed scenes of domestic violence in your family?
Was this age 1-5/6-14/15-present?
Or all of the above?
2. Were these scenes between your parents/partners?
Did they ever directly involve you?
Yes: 4 No: 5
3. Were you ever physically hurt during these episodes?
Yes: 3 No: 6
4. Were you verbally abused during these episodes?
Yes: 9 No: 0
5. How did your experience affect your daily life:
1. Made you shy..2
2. Made you sad.9
3. Made you angry5
4. Made you aggressive towards others3
6. Do you believe your experience to have been detrimental to your ability to enjoy and participate in school?
1. Yes..3
2. No6
2 out of 9 respondents said they had witnessed or experienced domestic abuse throughout their lives. Just under half of respondents said that they were directly involved in scenes of domestic violence and all respondents said they were verbally abused. The highest percentage (100%) said they had felt sad, while just under half felt aggressive towards other people.
Interviews
The four cases of domestic violence all revealed the problem of domestic violence to be one associated with isolation and taking place within the privacy of the home.

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