1. Of Good Mothers and Violent Fathers: Negotiating Child Protection Interventions in Abusive Relationships.
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Kuskoff E, Parsell C, Plage S, Perales F, and Ablaza C
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- Humans, Female, Male, Child, Adult, Child Abuse prevention & control, Child Abuse psychology, Child Protective Services, Negotiating methods, Negotiating psychology, Child, Preschool, Violence prevention & control, Violence psychology, Housing, Mothers psychology, Fathers psychology, Parenting psychology, Qualitative Research
- Abstract
This article examines the efficacy of a supportive housing program aiming to provide mothers in violent relationships with the practical resources to minimize child protection intervention. Drawing on qualitative interviews with program mothers, child safety officers, and program practitioners, we explore the extent to which the program enabled mothers and children to live free from fathers' violence and disengage from the child protection system. We find that, although valuable, the program did not fully mitigate the risks posed by violent fathers. We therefore argue that responsibility must be shifted onto violent fathers to change their behavior and build their parenting capacities., Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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- 2024
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