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…
Parent abuse
They F*** You Up
Reading an interview with author, Norah Vincent, this week, I came over all philosophical. Vincent was speaking to Emilee Lindner…
October Training in Nottingham
Nottinghamshire Domestic Violence Forum are running a repeat of their June training day on October 5th 2012. Addressing Young People’s…
Strong links between different kinds of family violence
An interesting juxtaposition of topics on Woman’s Hour today. Amongst the early items, Jenni Murray interviewed Lisa Harker, Head of…
No one could accuse the PAARS team of a lack of commitment!
I met with the practitioners from PAARS this week to find out more about what they are doing, and to…
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,…
Problematising young men
Dr Helen Baker has kindly sent me details of an article which was published in Criminal Justice Matters in March…
Respect 6th National Practitioners Seminar
I have come to anticipate a stimulating and informative experience from Respect’s Practitioner Seminars. Yesterday’s, in the London Borough of…
Safeguarding issues in child to parent violence
A lot has been written about the difficulties in adopting a safeguarding response to the issue of parent abuse. First…
Something to celebrate!
This week I celebrate one year of this blog. When I first became aware of the issue of parent abuse,…