Parent abuse by young people on the edge of care: a child welfare perspective

TY - JOUR

T1 - Parent abuse by young people on the edge of care

T2 - a child welfare perspective

AU - Biehal, Nina

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - This paper reports on parent abuse by 112 young people within a sample of 209 families with adolescent children who were receiving family support services, presenting both young people and parents’ accounts of this abuse. Drawing on an analysis of quantitative data, it also reports on the characteristics, histories and circumstances of the young people and families and examines the predictors of parent abuse. Lone mothers were more likely to be victims of this abuse. Many of the young people had experienced maltreatment and those who had witnessed domestic violence were more likely to be violent to parents.

AB - This paper reports on parent abuse by 112 young people within a sample of 209 families with adolescent children who were receiving family support services, presenting both young people and parents’ accounts of this abuse. Drawing on an analysis of quantitative data, it also reports on the characteristics, histories and circumstances of the young people and families and examines the predictors of parent abuse. Lone mothers were more likely to be victims of this abuse. Many of the young people had experienced maltreatment and those who had witnessed domestic violence were more likely to be violent to parents.

KW - PARENT ABUSE

KW - abuse

KW - adolescents

KW - domestic violence

KW - intergenerational transmission of abuse

U2 - 10.1017/S1474746411000595

DO - 10.1017/S1474746411000595

M3 - Article

SN - 1474-7464

VL - 11

SP - 251

EP - 263

JO - Social Policy and Society

JF - Social Policy and Society

IS - 2

ER -