JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE / November 2001 Baker et al. / PARENTING AMONG LATINOS This study examined predictors of parenting stress and competence within a sample of 43 immi- grant Latino couples, in which some of the men had perpetrated abuse against their partners. It was hypothesized that more physical and psychological abuse perpetrated by men against their partners would be associated with higher parenting stress and lower parenting competence for fathers and mothers. Results indicated that parenting stress and competence for fathers and mothers were not uniform. Father’s parenting stress was not related to the predictor variables, whereas mother’s parenting stress was related only to physical abuse. Father’s parenting com- petence was related to both physical and psychological abuse whereas mother’s parenting com- petence was not related to the predictor variables. When comparing Latino fathers and Latina mothers, there were differences in parenting stress, with fathers experiencing less, but no differ- ences in parenting competence. Parenting Stress and Parenting Competence Among Latino Men Who Batter CHARLENE K. BAKER JULIA L. PERILLA FRAN H. NORRIS Georgia State University The relation between parenting and domestic violence has been studied extensively in the past two decades. Some of this research has focused on child outcomes, whereas other studies have addressed issues of parenting among battered women. Few studies, however, have explored male batterers as parents, because men have not usually been incorporated into research models regarding domestic violence and parenting outcomes (Mathews, 1995; Peled, 2000). The negative effects on child outcomes due to the presence of domestic violence have been well documented (Holden & Ritchie, 1991; Jouriles, Norwood, McDonald, Vincent, & Mahoney, 1996; Wolfe, Jaffe, Wilson, & Zak, 1985), although none of these studies were conducted with Latino/a 1 1139 Authors’ Note: This research was supported by Grant No. R03DA11152 from the Inter- agency Consortium on Violence Against Women and Family Violence Research. The authors thank the Caminar Latino Intervention team for their help in conceptualizing the project and col- lecting the data, as well as Roger Bakeman for his comments on earlier drafts. Address corre- spondence to Charlene Baker, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303, or e-mail at bakerck@juno.com. JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE, Vol. 16 No. 11, November 2001 1139-1157 © 2001 Sage Publications