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BOCYF Projects
Violence and the American Family
Publications: Violence and the American Family: Report of a Workshop (1994)
The Workshop on Violence and the American Family, held May 11-13, 1993, was one in a series of meetings on current and emerging child and family policy issues organized by the National Forum on the Future of Children and Families (now incorporated into the Board on Children, Youth, and Families). Thirty-five participants met for three days at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, to identify key issues that need to be addressed in responding to the problem of family violence and to assess the quality of research in this field. Participants were drawn from the communities of researchers, service providers, and policy makers.
The participants were asked to do the following:
- Consider key similarities and differences among the various forms of family violence
- Identify lessons learned in understanding the causes and consequences of family violence
- some promising approaches in addressing the problems of child abuse, spousal abuse, elder abuse, and adolescent violence
- Consider the implications of family violence for future governmental policies and programs in the areas of health, social services, and criminal justice
- Clarify issues related to family violence that would be appropriate for empirical analysis and policy or research recommendations
A workshop report, Violence and the American Family: Report of a Workshop, was released in 1994.
Support for the workshop was provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Johnson Foundation of Racine, Wisconsin.
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