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Introduction: Exploring Parent Abuse – Building Knowledge across Disciplines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2012

Caroline Hunter  and
Judy Nixon
Caroline Hunter
Affiliation:
York Law School, University of York E-mail caroline.hunter@york.ac.uk
Judy Nixon
Affiliation:
Sheffield Hallam University E-mail j.nixon@shu.ac.uk
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There is an extensive body of literature on the ways in which the family home is often a site of conflict and discord rather than security and safety. Much of this work has focussed on the problem of domestic violence perpetrated by adults and how the state should respond to it (Home Office, 2009). Another form of family violence however, that of the abuse of parents (or those occupying a parental role) by their adolescent children, has not received such public (or academic) recognition (Hunter et al., 2010). In the UK, the issue of parent abuse remains one of the most unacknowledged and under-researched form of family violence.

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Themed Section on Exploring Parent Abuse
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 211 - 215
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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