Addressing parent abuse through Juvenile Family Courts in USA
This piece from the Orlando Sentinel on 4th October, reporting on responses to parent abuse following the death of Rosemary Pate at…
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Everybody Hurts: Parent abuse on Radio Sheffield
The top story on the Radio Sheffield breakfast programme yesterday morning (October 3rd) was to do with the launch of…
Parent abuse: Do the math. The cost of not intervening
“Mental disorders cost the economy more than £100bn a year” …. “2 million more adults and 100,000 more children will…
Adolescent Violence to Parents Conference report
The Adolescent Violence to Parents (APV) conference held this week (September 23rd 2013) in Oxford was an important landmark in…
Weekend round-up
Over the last weeks a number of things have caught my attention and I thought it worth while bringing them…
Trouble in the Troubled Families Department
I have a sort of Love-Hate relationship with the Trouble Families Programme and so I like to keep abreast of developments…
Elder Abuse: Is this the same thing as parent abuse?
In June 2006 an article in the Times newspaper reported on a parliamentary Health Committee inquiry, set up in 2003…
New Adolescent Violence to Parents website goes live
I was really thrilled this week to see the new website from Rachel Condry and Caroline Miles at Oxford University.…
Silent Cries: a child’s account of living with violence
Amongst the many factors that have been identified with regard to children’s violence to parents, the experience of living with…
Parent abuse roulette
It’s hard not to feel a sense of helplessness – as well as fury – when reading pieces such as…