The Road to Unfreedom: Violence and Multidimensional Poverty Among Young Australian Women

Our study examined the cumulative impacts of violence from childhood through to adulthood on young women's multidimensional poverty risk. We analyzed six waves of data from the 1989-1995 birth cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (<i>N</i> = 11,224 women), estimating multinomial logistic regression and fixed-effects logistic regression models. Our measure of multidimensional poverty captured women's deprivations in material, education, employment, health, and social/relationship domains. Women exposed to violence in childhood were more likely to be in multidimensional poverty across young adulthood, and more likely to be revictimized at the hands of intimate partners. Coercive control significantly increased women's multidimensional poverty risk.