Just following up on a couple of those points...[Technical Difficulty--Editor]...it's quite different. In general, we find that younger women—by which we mean women in their sixties, maybe into their early seventies—actually are at greater risk of physical abuse and psychological abuse within the community than older women are. However, older women appear to be more susceptible to neglect. There are differences there in terms of.... Again, it's really important to recognize that we're talking about at least two generations--and in some cases we're talking about more, depending on the beginning age that we're talking about--in terms of who's an older woman in the first place.
One of the things to be mindful of—it's one of those stereotypes out there around social learning—is that adult children may have experienced abuse or neglect when they were younger, and now it's turnaround time. We don't find much support for that. As a matter of fact, if you follow across the life course, for the children who experienced the most severe types of harm—physical abuse, sexual abuse—about a quarter of those go on to be abusers. So this idea that having experienced harm from somebody earlier in life sets you up to be an abuser later in life is not necessarily the case.