Is lifetime abuse forgivable in old age?

Figures & data

Table 1. Study participants.

	N	Age	Marital status	Ethnicity
S1. Older women ascribing meaning to experienced childhood incest	10	54–68	5 married	Jewish
			5 divorced
S2. Life stories of Arab women engaged in prostitution	10	42–55*	5 single	Arab
			3 divorced
			2 widows
S3. Family members’ perspectives on intimate violence over the lifespan	18	62–80	15 married	Jewish
			3 divorced
S4. National study on battered women in Israel	40	35–70**	30 married	Jewish and Arab
			5 divorced
			5 widows

* The relatively young age range of participants (42–55) can be attributed to the widely recognized phenomenon of premature aging among women engaged in prostitution (Farley, 2014) (Farley, 2014).

**In this article, the data presented from the National Study on Battered Women for illustrative purposes was extracted from the subgroup of women 65 and older.

Farley, M. (2014). Prostitution and the invisibility of harm. In M. Banks & E. Kaschak (Eds.), Women with visible and invisible disabilities (pp. 247–280). Routledge.

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Data availability statement

The participants of this study did not give written consent for their data to be shared publicly, so due to the sensitive nature of the research supporting data is not available.