Product Description

This fully updated Reader provides a comprehensive review of recent research and legislation relating to domestic violence and its consequences for children, and identifies the implications for practice. It is divided into three parts. Part One describes evidence for the links between domestic violence and the concomitant abuse of children and assesses the effects on children's future well-being. Part Two is a comprehensive and accessible guide to relevant current criminal and civil legislation. Highlighting the success of multi-agency approaches, the final part details practical issues for interventions with children and their carers, male perpetrators, and, new to this edition, women. Endorsed by children's charities including the NSPCC and Barnardo's, "Making an Impact" enables professionals working with children to develop informed, sophisticated and collaborative child care and protection responses for children who are experiencing domestic violence.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #232733 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 287 pages

Review
"'...a valuable addition to the increasing literature on a persistent problem affecting everyone in the family. The authors have put together a resource for all those working with children and families... It offers much for those concerned to enhance inter-agency working and to find creative ways to safeguard women at risk and minimize the emotional damage caused to children witnessing domestic violence.' - Journal of Family Health Care"

About the Author
Marianne Hester is Professor of Gender, Violence and International Policy in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, and part of the Violence Against Women Research Group. She has written extensively on children and domestic violence, and, with Lorraine Radford, co-authored Mothering Through Domestic Violence, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Chris Pearson is Co-ordinator of Exeter Women's Aid. She previously worked at the University of Bristol and was a member of the Domestic Violence Research Group. Nicola Harwin is the National Co-ordinator of the Women's Aid Federation of England.

Customer Reviews

Protecting children from domestic violence
This book gives an excellent overview of the impact of domestic violence on the lives of children and their mothers. It should be a compulsory text for refuge workers, social workers and all professionals working with children caught up in domestic violence situations.
The book is well laid out, clear and accessible, giving up to date research as well as tools for working with families.
As a child protection social worker, I cannot recommend it highly enough. for too long we have under estimated the effects of domestic violence on children. This book is key in raising awareness, and provides a clear guide for their protection.

Victims of domestic violence need to know truth
It is all well and good writing on this problem in society,all the effects are already well known and documaeted but are not heeded in the real world by social workers, and other so called professionals.

Victims of domestic violence, children and parent involved must be told the truth.

Inside the family court, the chances are , the abuser will get contact and even full custody of these already abused children.

51% of mothers who came for help from child protection services have had their children forcibly adopted in UK.

So, the reward for doing the right thing is to loose the children to the abuser or the care system.

Either way, the children are going to be traumatised and fragmented.

All because the child protection industry knows fine well that the abused parent will keep fighting to try and protect the children.

Social workers and court agents will Not help you to get justice.

This is what needs writing about.