On December 8–12, 1986, a group of experts gathered at Vienna, Austria and dealt with the problem of “Violence in the Family with Special Emphasis on its Effects on Women.” The United Nations currently publishes Women News, whose aim is to promote the goals of the UN Decade for Women—equality, development and peace—and of the Nairobi Forward-Looking for the Advancement of Women, by the UN Secretariat. Those readers who wish to obtain further information on the subject should write to the Branch for the Advancement of Women, Room E-1283, Vienna International Centre, P. O. Box 500, A-1400, Vienna, Austria. Aside from the worldwide research on violence in the family, there are many universities in the United States that have attempted to develop theories and more elaborate research design and to apply them to the real family settings. Since the early 1970's, the members of the Family Violence Research Program at the Family Research Laboratory of University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire 03824) have ...