Jeffrey L. Edleson is a Professor in the University of Minnesota School of Social Work and Director of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse. Over the past two decades Dr. Edleson has conducted intervention research at the Domestic Abuse Project in Minneapolis and served as a consultant to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and to the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. An Associate Editor of the journal Violence Against Women, Dr. Edleson has published widely on domestic violence, groupwork, and program evaluation. Oliver J. Williams, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community and Professor in the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. He has worked in the field of domestic violence for over twenty-five years as a battered women's advocate, batterer intervention counselor, trainer, and researcher. He has also been involved in several national advisory committees and collaborated with the Family Violence Prevention Fund, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and other domestic violence and social service organizations.

"As a senior policy analyst in the Federal Department of Health and Human Services, working on issues of domestic violence and child maltreatment for many years, I have come to believe that we must pay a lot more attention than we have to fathers who batter and the various ways their behavior affects their children. Given my experience, this book by Edleson and Williams is most timely and welcome. They have assembled a group of important chapters that provide very useful policy and practice perspectives that can advance our ability to keep children safe in families without violence and destructive control. Parenting by Men Who Batter tackles critical and cutting edge issues."-- Jerry Silverman, co-editor of Children Exposed to Violence

"This book breathes the fresh air of hope and reason into an old debateIt provides a unique and concise integration of findings from both research and practice. It summarizes the relevant research about abusive men as parents as well as the effects of domestic violence on children. Just as importantly, it clues us into the perspectives of mothers, fathers, and children who experience domestic violence and tells us what they want Beyond this, the book shows how men with histories of domestic violence can be helped to become better parents in ways that are safe and responsible to the needs of children and their mothers."-- David Adams, Ed.D., Co-Director, Emerge, and Facilitator, Responsible Fatherhood Program at Emerge