Worker Safety in High-risk Child Protection and Domestic Violence Cases

Families in Court for Child Protection and Domestic Violence

The systems for protecting children from abuse and women from domestic violence have developed separately over the past 30 years. Common sense, clinical experience and some research indicate a close relationship between child maltreatment and domestic violence. However, the two systems have largely run along different tracks, each preoccupied with its own mission. Current efforts seek to addres...

Domestic Violence and Child Protection: a Police Responsibility?

In 1997, the authors undertook a collaborative research project with Barnardos, Australia, exploring domestic violence and child protection. The aim of the project was to develop and articulate a set of practice and policy principles to enhance future intervention with non-offending parents (over 98% of whom are women) and their children. The project involved three sages: observation of intake ...

Mothers, domestic violence, and child protection: an American legal perspective.

Adult domestic violence in cases of international parental child abduction.

This article discusses the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and its impact on battered mothers and their children seeking safety in the United States. We discuss relevant articles of the convention, the extent to which adult domestic violence is present in cases of international parental abduction, and cases in which battered mothers have contested the forc...

Child abuse and domestic violence.

Case Presentation MR, a bright, chatty 6-year-old boy, disclosed physical and sexual abuse by his father. There is a history of domestic violence in the home, which he shares with his 7-year-old sister and his mother. The children witnessed their father hitting their mother, choking her, pushing her against the wall, and kicking her in the stomach on several occasions while she was pregnant wit...