Abstract
We tested a theoretical model of the processes through which risk for violence is promoted by parental partner violence. Specifically, we tested a model in which parental partner violence affects discipline, monitoring, and parental harshness, which in turn affect youth violence. Participants were 160 urban minority males and their mothers who were interviewed at 3 approximately yearly intervals. The results showed that maternal partner violence perpetration was negatively related to monitoring and harsh parenting and unrelated to discipline practices. Monitoring was negatively related to youth violence, and harsh parenting was positively related to youth violence. The implications of these findings for understanding the multigenerational transmission of partner violence from a developmental-ecological perspective are discussed.