The majority of past research on the etiology and the consequences of child abuse and intimate partner violence against women have taken a narrow focus with studies on different types of abuse being conducted in isolation. Our present knowledge is primarily derived from studies of main effects models in which the impact of one type of violence on the individual child usually is studied and little attention is paid to any interaction between different types of abuse or multiple abuse experiences. There is the need to examine factors that affect the co-occurrence of victimization experiences in the family to better understand the consequences of this type of victimization. There is the need to understand the impact of violence from a life course perspective. In-depth interview studies are recommended to aid in a better understanding of the nature and interactions in families where both child abuse and battering are present, as well as how these families differ from those where there is battering but no child abuse or child abuse but no battering. In order to develop adequate intervention and prevention programs, it is necessary to try to make sense of the connections between types of violence and between violence during different developmental and life stages. References