ANROWS research project RP.14.05 - Domestic and family violence and parenting: Mixed method insights into impact and support needs.

To examine the impact of domestic and family violence on parenting and child development, this research analysed data from Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), Australia's leading source of data on children's development and wellbeing. LSAC collects data every 2 years on "inter-parental conflict": mothers' experiences of conflict with their domestic partner, a broad set of behaviours that may include domestic and family violence for some families. While the focus on inter-parental conflict means that we cannot isolate the impact of domestic violence, this research nonetheless provides some of the only longitudinal data on childhood development and also provides critical information on a broader set of behaviours and dynamics, of which domestic violence is a subset.