The aim of the Beijing Maple Women's Psychological Counseling Center is to study women and marriage issues and serve women. It has established the first weekend club for singles, the first hotline for women and the first service center for single parent families. The center now has seven 24-hour women's hotlines and has also set up an expert hotline, special hotline for elderly people and an anti-domestic violence hotline. The center has conducted studies on women's employment, women's participation in politics, single parent families, sexual harassment, domestic violence, contemporary marriage and the family, women's rights and judicial protection.