Evidence from victim service providers suggests the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in family violence. However, empirical evidence has been limited. This study uses novel survey data to investigate the occurrence of family violence during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Data come from the second wave of the Assessing the Social Consequences of COVID-19 study, an online non-probability sample collected in April and May 2020. Family violence is measured using four variables: any violence, physical violence, verbal abuse, and restricted access. The authors use logistic regression and KHB decomposition to examine the prevalence of family violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that sexual minorities, in particular bisexual people, experienced higher rates of family violence than heterosexual respondents. Women were the only group to report an increase in the frequency of family violence. Household income loss is associated with the incidence of verbal violence. Our findings demonstrate the importance of expanding victim services to address the additional barriers victims face within the pandemic context and beyond, including broad contexts of social isolation and financial precarity experienced by individuals at risk of family violence.

来自受害者服务提供者的证据表明，COVID-19 大流行导致家庭暴力增加。然而，经验证据有限。本研究使用新颖的调查数据来调查美国 COVID-19 大流行初期几个月的家庭暴力发生情况。数据来自第二波“评估 COVID-19 的社会后果”研究，这是 2020 年 4 月和 5 月收集的在线非概率样本。家庭暴力使用四个变量来衡量：任何暴力、身体暴力、言语虐待和限制性暴力。使用权。作者使用逻辑回归和 KHB 分解来研究 COVID-19 大流行期间家庭暴力的流行情况。我们发现，性少数群体，特别是双性恋者，遭受家庭暴力的比例高于异性恋受访者。妇女是唯一报告家庭暴力频率增加的群体。家庭收入损失与言语暴力的发生有关。我们的研究结果证明了扩大受害者服务的重要性，以解决受害者在大流行背景下及之后面临的额外障碍，包括面临家庭暴力风险的个人所经历的社会孤立和经济不稳定的广泛背景。