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Violence Against Women, Vol. 10, No. 9, 961-990 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1077801204267464

Welfare Reform, Domestic Violence, and Employment

What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?

Stephanie Riger

Susan L. Staggs

University of Illinois at Chicago

Welfare reforms enacted in 1996 require that recipients work to receive benefits. Advocates for battered women feared that abusive men would escalate violence in response to independence brought to women by employment. Yet research on employment, domestic violence, and welfare reform has yielded mixed findings. The authors review those findings and propose that a context-sensitive social-psychological perspective identifying relevant dimensions of culture and measuring partner’s employment may be more useful than a focus only on characteristics of women. Findings suggest that inclusion of generous work supportsin welfare legislation may help reducepoverty and domestic violence.

Key Words: domestic violence • poverty • welfare reform • work


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