Violence from children towards parents is not confined to childhood or adolescence. The concept of filial violence encompasses violence towards parents across the life course, including violence by adult children towards parents, parental elder abuse and parricide.
DOCUMENTING PARENT ABUSE
- Website founded by Helen Bonnick, now managed jointly by Capa First Response & Durham University
- "I look at the holes in the wall and think, 'God I remember that day'." (interview with parent, 2006)
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Read Helen Bonnick’s book: Child to Parent Violence and Abuse: A Practitioner’s Guide to Working with Families, published by Pavilion. Buy it here.
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BLOGROLL
International Network Addressing Filial Violence
CAPA First Response
Step-Up
Haim Omer NVR
Family Lives
Respect Young People's Service
Adfam
4 Children
Family Based Solutions (formerly PAARS)
Adolescent to Parent Violence Project (Oxford)
YUVA
Rosalie Ryrie Foundation
Action for Children
Adolescent Violence in the Home
National Consortium on AFCCA / APFEA
Safe Lives (previously CAADA)
Who's in Charge? (UK)
PEGS
Youth Justice Board (England and Wales)
Child to parent violence in Ireland
New Authority Parenting Ireland
Green Moon Training (Ireland)
New Authority Network International
Partnership Projects
NVR Northampton
Our Patch
Sociedad Espanola para el Estudio de la Violencia Filio-Parental
Euskarri, Centro de Intervencion y Formacion en la Violencia Filio-Parental
Yvonne Newbold / VCB
National Association of Therapeutic Parents
HOLES IN THE WALL · documenting parent abuse
