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One of the early pioneers in the field of child maltreatment was Brandt Steele. He was the psychiatrist on the original “Battered Child” paper with C. Henry Kempe in 1962 (Kempe et al. 1962). Brandt saw his first case in 1956 and spent nearly a half century listening to abused children and abusive adults before his death in 2005 at the age of 97. One of his favorite sayings was “If you don’t understand someone’s behavior, you don’t have enough history.” He always took time to pause and to listen, to ask questions, and to try to understand what it was that led to the behaviors—and the consequences of those behaviors. With that in mind, you may wonder what it was that led us to start this new Handbook of Child Maltreatment and the series Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy, of which it is a part. There are many books and journals now that regularly report on what is new, or what is going on in the field of child maltreatment. Substantial progress has been made in addressing child maltreatment, as will be seen in the chapters in this volume. Nevertheless, many of the core questions of the field remain, and the chapters point us in the direction of what is known, but perhaps even more importantly, what remains to be known to make progress in helping abused children, their families, and their communities.