In the past two years, the March 2020 call led to the online publication of 36 articles concerned with the COVID-19 pandemic and family violence in JOFV. Now, with a considerable body of research developed concerning the pandemic and family violence, the July and the August 2022 journal issues will be dedicated to disseminating much of this work. Overall, these articles span various form of family violence, including child maltreatment (Sinko et al.,
2021), domestic violence and IPV (Leigh et al.,
2022), elder mistreatment (Liu et al.,
2021), and sibling violence (Perkins et al.,
2021). Likewise, these articles use a variety of scientific methods, including analytic commentaries (Sharma & Borah,
2020), literature reviews (McNeil et al.,
2022), qualitative approaches (Voth Schrag et al.,
2022), and quantitative approaches (Spencer et al.,
2021). In addition to attending to the connections between family violence and the pandemic in both rural (Moffitt et al.,
2020) and urban communities (McLay,
2021; Shariati & Guerette,
2022), these articles were generated from research conducted around the globe, including China (Zhang,
2020), England (Gregory & Williamson,
2021), Norway (Bergman et al.,
2021), Portugal (Capinha et al.,
2021), and Singapore (Chung et al.,
2020). Taken together, this developing body of global evidence provides an opportunity to reflect on and take stock of the connections between family violence and the pandemic, particularly as the worldwide impacts of COVID-19 continue to evolve just as the virus itself does.