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Mental Health Worsens After Relationship Ends for Abused Mothers

by Rathi Manohar on August 26, 2010 at 9:17 PM Mental Health News

The mental health of abused mothers may actually worsen before improving even after the end of a violent relationship, reports a new study.

Mental Health Worsens After Relationship Ends for Abused Mothers

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Researchers have found that in the two years after the end of an abusive relationship, mothers showed poorer mental health, became more depressed and maintained high levels of anxiety.

However, abused mothers who had more social support fared better after the end of their relationship than did similar mothers with less help from friends and family.

"Our findings really help us understand how unstable those first few years are for mothers who leave violent or controlling relationships," said Kate Adkins of Ohio State University.

"Even though getting out of the relationship may be good in the long run, they first have to deal with multiple sources of stress, including financial problems, single parenting and sharing custody with the abuser," she said.

Claire Kamp Dush of Ohio State University said: "What our results mean is that these women still need a lot of support and a lot of services even after they leave. Family members and friends may think things are okay because she has left the abuser. But she still needs support and she still needs social services."

The researchers used data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-being study, a project of Princeton and Columbia universities.

They used data on about 2,400 mothers who were married to, or co-habiting with, the father of their child at the end of the first year of the three-study.

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