Violence and Threats in the Home

Youth Violence in Rural Areas

A new study of rural youth violence found important similarities and one important difference in the community characteristics that predict youth violence. | more

What Is to Blame for Youth Violence?

The Media, Guns, Parenting, Poverty, Bad Programs, Or... | more

Child abuse and father figures: Which kind of families are safest to grow up in?

Some studies show that children with a father surrogate living at home are more likely to be reported for maltreatment—abuse and neglect—than those with a biological father at home or, as some research shows, no father figure at all. | more

Teen Mothers as Targets for Violence

It is well-known that teen pregnancy puts girls at risk for a lifetime of poverty, but a new study shows that teen mothers are also at high risk of being abused by their boyfriends or husbands in the months after their baby is born. | more

Linking Spouse and Child Abuse

There has been a growing interest in the relationship between spouse abuse and child abuse and a growing consensus that if a woman is abused by her husband, the children are likely to also be abused. | more