News from the 2013 Youth Justice Convention
The Youth Justice Convention, hosted over two days in Birmingham, UK, at the end of November, included this year a…
CPV
Parent Abuse: the victim / perpetrator problem
When I speak with people about children’s violence to parents, the question of terminology regularly raises its head: How helpful…
Child to Parent Violence: Insights from Spain
Over the last few months I have been conscious that this blog has focused very much on events in the…
“An alignment of the planets”
Returning to the topic of themes that emerged from the recent conference on domestic violence by children against parents, in…
“Once your awareness is raised, doing nothing is not an option”.
Picking up on a phrase from Jenny Bright in the last post, it has seemed that almost everyone I have…
Emerging themes 1: CPV and IPV
In my last post I referred to the emergence of a number of themes through the day as we met…
Something else to worry about!
There are a lot of reasons why we might be anxious about the influence of Disney in the children’s clothes…
A PhD in Child to Parent Violence
A unique opportunity is advertised this week for students interested in undertaking funded research into the gendered aspects of CPV,…
House of Commons Launch of Parent Abuse Report
The Adfam / AVA report into how parents deal with children who use substances and perpetrate abuse, “Between a rock…
Supporting families of substance using, abusive young people
While it has long been known that substance abuse by young people was in some cases associated with parent abuse,…