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…
Discussion
Parent abuse roulette
It’s hard not to feel a sense of helplessness – as well as fury – when reading pieces such as…
Boys Rule. OK?
To celebrate the holiday season, this is a bit of a different post to usual. I can often be accused…
A Police Response to Parent Abuse
When I undertook my Masters study in 2004 – 6, one of the people I interviewed was a police officer,…
You can’t afford to dabble
Can anyone respond to a referral of parent abuse? Since we are encouraging practitioners to recognise when child to parent…
Model students perpetrating abuse
If, like me, you prefer your maths concrete and you use things like a classroom of students as a unit…
The law of unintended consequences
Today see the roll out of the welfare benefits cap across England, Wales and Scotland. What we are supposed to…
Understanding is everything
You may have caught the controversial coverage of comments made a few weeks ago by a mother of 4 children…
No rules about controlling relationships
Coverage of an assault by Charles Saatchi on his wife Nigella Lawson, outside a London restaurant at the weekend, has…
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…