THE FIELD CENTER
for Children's Policy, Practice & Research

A Population-Based Investigation of the Prevalence of Children’s Exposure to Domestic Violence and the Co-occurrence of Child Maltreatment

Rachel Fusco, a doctoral candidate investigator, delineated the nature and exposure of children to domestic violence by conducting secondary analyses of an archival data collected by police officers in the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland. Currently, there are no scientifically credible national prevalence data for what constitutes domestic violence and child exposure to it, nor are there ways to verify that the violence and the exposure occurred.  Ms. Fusco’s study attempts to fill the knowledge gap in this area.