Cralle-Day Children-At-Risk Endowed Chair of Studies on Violence Against Women

Historically, children have been the forgotten victims of domestic violence, overlooking the nightmare that research estimates impacts millions of children in America every year. The Center believes that any comprehensive empirical study of violence against women must also include research focused on the experience of children.

The interrelationship between intimate partner violence and child maltreatment, as a result, is a complex and understudied one. Children in homes with intimate partner violence not only face the trauma of witnessing violence, research suggests they are also at increased risk of physical and sexual maltreatment. Additionally, while research evidences abuse history in the childhoods of those who perpetrate adult violence, inadequate longitudinal research has been conducted to understand the trajectory of victimization to perpetration.

A generous donation was made by Joan Day and the Cralle Foundation to establish the Cralle-Day Children-At- Risk Endowed Chair of Studies on Violence Against Women in July 2006. A national search will be launched in 2009.