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Summarizes many important federally sponsored reports and provides meta-analysis styled empirical based overviews of contemporary research and intervention efforts. This book addresses explanations of battering behaviour, identification of victims, rape and sexual assault, and risk factors as well as ideological advocacy

PurposeA fundamental purpose of Massachusetts' General Law 209A is to prevent the use of physically assaultive behavior between family members and intimate partners to change or alter their behavior. This Massachusetts Law is similar to laws in all 50 states. Despite the fact that the vast majority of domestic violence laws contain no exceptions for age, the acceptance of physical assaults against children continues. This paper aims to investigate physical assaults on children.Design/methodology/approachThe paper compares and contrasts corporal punishment and domestic violence laws and explores what role cognitive dissonance plays in the acceptance of physical assaults against children by parents or guardians. It questions how or why public policy makers, domestic violence interveners and the majority of American adults continue to accept that the goal of preventing family physical assaults is possible in a family or a society that condones rather than condemns the use of physical assaults against children, including the use of belts or other injurious instruments.FindingsThis paper presents corporal punishment and criminal justice data that suggest that when some states did end corporal punishment in schools, the use of violence in general in that state was reduced.Originality/valueThese data suggest it may be possible to end or reduce the use of all physically assaultive behavior against another person in general when society condemns the use of all physically assaultive behavior regardless of age.

PurposeThe majority of child, sibling, dating, intimate partner, spousal and elder abuse and bullying interventions have as a primary goal the cessation of physical assaults. However, too many contemporary domestic violence efforts are reactionary, most occur following the use of physical assaults or after coercive behavior is exhibited and almost all do not begin until school age or much later. Recent research suggests that children express anger and use aggression soon after birth and that children are physically able and use physical assaults before age one. Children also obtain understandings about social interactions and have ideas about causal relationships before age four. This paper aims to consider these issues.Design/methodology/approachThe author gives a viewpoint on violent behavior and the effect of positive parenting, based on research in the USA.FindingsAll 50 states in the USA allow the use of physical assaults by parents and guardians against children with the goal of behavioral modification. To end the use of physical assaults regardless of age, gender or sexual orientation, all uses of physical assaults must be replaced with positive guidance and role modeling that condemns not condones the use of physical assaults.Originality/valueThese lessons must be role modeled, not lectured and begin the day children are born.