FAMILY RESEARCH LABORATORY

Current Research Projects

• International Dating Violence Study
• International Parenting Study
• DCYF IV-E Waiver Evaluation Study of Parental Substance Abuse & Child Maltreatment
• Crimes against Children Research Center
• Survey of Internet Mental Health Issues

• Physical Abuse of Children
• Corporal Punishment of Children
• Sexual Abuse of Children
• Physical Abuse of Spouses
• Dating Violence
• Abuse of the Elderly
• Intra-Family Homicide
• Rape and Marital Rape
• Violence between Siblings
• Pornography
• Parental Abduction
• Childhood Adversity and Mental Health
• Missing and Abducted Children

This variety of topics is a result of beliefs that have guided FRL research:

• that various forms of family problems are interrelated;
• that conflict is a basic to family life as are love and cooperation;
• that much of the conflict and violence in this world outside the family can be traced to roots in the family

Questions about the FRL can be addressed to:

Family Research Laboratory
126 Horton Social Science Center
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824-3586
Tel. 603-862-1888
Fax 603-862-1122
E-mail david.finkelhor@unh.edu or E-mail murray.straus@unh.edu