Co-Occurring Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment: Local Policies/Practices and Relationships to Child Placement, Family Services and Residence.

摘要

Family violence, and particularly co-occurring domestic violence and child maltreatment, are common and complex, often frustrating both child welfare agencies and domestic violence service organizations in their efforts to care for children and adult victims, respectively. The Family Violence Services Study (FVSS) is a project to collect detailed, contextual data at the state and local levels on the organization and relationship of child welfare services for children, and domestic violence services for women when these problems co-occur. Although previous research has found a high rate of co-occurring domestic violence and child maltreatment in the child welfare system, little systematic research on a national scale is available about state and local policies and practices related to these families.