Hearing from adopters about living with traumatised young people
In March 2016 I went to Kings Cross to meet with someone I had been talking to on Twitter for…
Beyond the Adoption Order
CPV: Everyone knows someone affected (probably)
A couple of weeks ago I was talking with a colleague about our separate work around child to parent violence…
Adoption and Fostering Podcast, child to parent violence
I was privileged last week to have a conversation about child to parent violence (CPV) with Al Coates, adoptive parent,…
A story of knives and cuts – with a little bit of hope at the end.
What is it with knives? (I’m sure someone will answer that for us!) So many parents report the use of…
The Adoption Social: Listening to and supporting each other
One of the particular groups of people I follow on twitter has been the adoption community. Early on in my…
Support for adoptive families experiencing violence and abuse from children
The publication last April of the research report: Beyond the Adoption Order highlighted the urgent need within the adoption community for…
Child to Parent Violence: The Adoption Issue
A couple of years ago I was asked to write something about child to parent violence with reference to adoptive families.…