status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as …This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin …-Paredes, 2018a; Juárez & Gayet, 2014). This combination of stability and change has had profound transformations in the family …

Every day, three women are murdered in the United States by a current or former partner. Yet policy action to prevent … gender-based violence has been limited. Previous studies have highlighted the effect of female political representation on … crimes against women in the developing world. This paper investigates whether the election of a female politician reduces the …