Breaking the taboo: Let’s talk about child-to-parent violence
Dennis Golm
Abstract:Lots of kicking, lots of punching, lots of biting, lots of hitting, lots of swearing' (Duncan, Fearon and Woolgar, 2024: 6). That is how a parent in a study published in this issue of Adoption & Fostering describes their experiences of child-to-parent violence. But how many punches, kicks or hurtful words justify the use of this term? Or is it not a question of quantity, but severity? Indeed, there is no universally agreed definition of child-to-parent violence as concluded by a recent scoping review (Rogers … Show more
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