Deadly violence has drastically increased in Latin America, posing a serious threat to women's sexual and reproductive health. Previous research has documented both increases and declines in youth‐to‐adulthood transitions associated with exposure to violence globally. However, there has been a lack of comparative studies focusing on multiple life‐course transitions. This study investigated the impact of community violence on women's life‐course transitions in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala. Drawing on nationally representative surveys and homicide statistics, fixed effects models are employed to estimate the correlation between women's exposure to community violence and the intensity, timing, and sequencing of their critical life events: first cohabitation and childbirth. The results revealed that exposure to violence was associated with an increase in the quantum and tempo of transitions to first cohabitation and birth in Colombia. Competing risk models showed that community violence correlated with the sequencing of cohabitation and birth in the Dominican Republic, as identified by an increase in precohabiting fertility. There was suggestive but inconclusive evidence of an association between community violence and transitions to first birth in Guatemala. In conclusion, community violence indeed predicts women's youth‐to‐adulthood transitions in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and potentially Guatemala, with repercussions for the subsequent life experiences of individuals and entire cohorts.

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里程碑时刻：哥伦比亚、多米尼加共和国和危地马拉的社区暴力和妇女生命历程的转变

拉丁美洲的致命暴力急剧增加，对妇女的性健康和生殖健康构成严重威胁。先前的研究已经记录了全球范围内与暴力接触相关的青少年到成年转变的增加和减少。然而，缺乏针对多重生命历程转变的比较研究。本研究调查了社区暴力对哥伦比亚、多米尼加共和国和危地马拉妇女生命历程转变的影响。根据全国代表性调查和凶杀统计数据，采用固定效应模型来估计妇女遭受社区暴力与其重大生活事件（首次同居和分娩）的强度、时间和顺序之间的相关性。结果显示，在哥伦比亚，接触暴力与首次同居和生育过渡的数量和速度增加有关。竞争风险模型表明，社区暴力与多米尼加共和国的同居和生育顺序相关，这一点可以通过同居前生育率的增加来确定。在危地马拉，有暗示性但非决定性的证据表明社区暴力与第一胎过渡之间存在关联。总之，社区暴力确实预示着哥伦比亚、多米尼加共和国以及危地马拉妇女从青年期到成年期的转变，并对个人和整个群体随后的生活经历产生影响。