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Given the centrality of the family to child and adult well-being and the changing dynamics and structure of families today, an urgent need exists to map trends in family life across the globe, with a special focus on the consequences of these trends for children. Enter The World Family Map Project, a new, nonpartisan, nonsectarian initiative from Child Trends, acting in partnership with a number of foundations, nongovernmental organizations, and universities, including the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Focus Global, and the Social Trends Institute.

This guide was developed as a resource to assist domestic violence service providers in examining the effectiveness of their programs in a straight-forward manner.

This working protocol was drafted by a group of researchers and practitioners connected to Michigan State University and the Michigan Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.

The annual VPC report details national and state-by-state information on female homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender. The study uses the most recent data available from the Federal Bureau of Investigations unpublished Supplementary Homicide Report and is released each year to coincide with Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October. Nationwide, 1,800 females were murdered by males in single victim/single offender incidents in 2010.

This report explores overall trends in violent crime against youth ages 12 to 17. Information on the demographic characteristics of the victim, the location and time of the incident, weapon involvement and injury, the victim-offender relationship, and whether police were notified is included. Findings indicate that female youth were more likely than male youth to be victimized by an intimate partner from 1994 to 2010.