What is the relationship between fatherhood and marriage programs and domestic violence prevention?
Fatherhood and marriage programs, like domestic violence prevention, are intended to help support healthy and safe family relationships. People working in domestic violence prevention may have concerns that participants who are experiencing domestic violence might be placed at increased risk by a program that supports couples who want to stay together. Marriage and fatherhood programs can develop successful partnerships with domestic violence programs to address the issue. One way that these programs can work together is by including a domestic violence screening procedure within the marriage program and helping participants access the appropriate services. For more information about how these different programs can work together, please see the Center for Law and Social Policy’s Building Bridges between Healthy Marriage, Responsible Fatherhood, and Domestic Violence Programs: A Preliminary Guide. Additional resources and information on domestic violence are available on RAC’s Domestic
