This tool will increase clinicians' understanding of the important role they can play to identify, prevent, and reduce intimate partner violence.
Prenatal care provides a critical window of opportunity to screen and refer pregnant women.
The content of the slide set is enriched by supporting materials that include a bibliography, references to several widely used protocols for screening, and organization resource lists. The commentaries and research papers in this issue reflect much of the thinking that came from that conference and the work that followed it. The abstracts from the 10 papers included in this special issue are posted here. Maternal and Child Health Journal , Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2000 . The objective of this study was to assess whether unintended pregnancy during adulthood is associated with exposure to psychological, physical, or sexual abuse or household dysfunction during childhood.