For more than a decade, an area outside Chicago’s O’Hare airport has been the site of an innovative social enterprise combining bees, undevelopable land, and former prisoners in search of a new beginning.

Since 2004, Sweet Beginnings in the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago’s West Side, has employed more than 400 ex-cons, training them as beekeepers, helping to maintain and harvest 131 hives, many housed on unused land owned by O’Hare. The company makes honey – sold in stores around the city – as well as other products such as shower gel, lotion, and lip balm.

Graduates of the program, which was set up by the North Lawndale Employment Network with seed money from the Illinois Department of Corrections, have a recidivism rate of just 4 percent, compared with theNeglected fathers: limitations in diagnostic and treatment resources for violent men.
In its examination of violent activity within the family, current literature assumes a "pecking order" exists: Larger and stronger family members attack those who are smaller and weaker. Adult males are usually studied as primary maltreaters of spouses, while females are considered mainly responsible for physically abusive behavior with children. Use of this perspective has led to neglect of male abusers, who injure half of the mistreated children in the United States. Through assessment of 66 studies of child abuse published during a 5-year period, this paper documents the lack of attention abusive fathers have received. Twenty-eight of these studies included only mothers, while two dealt exclusively with fathers. Most of the 36 remaining two-parent studies did not