Since 2023, Spain has consistently recorded over 4,000 reports of child-to-parent violence each year
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Fact of the day – October 28th
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.
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Fact of the day – 27th October
Child-to-parent violence can effectively become hidden within research on childhood aggression. A scoping review in 2023 found that differences in terminology, academic discipline and conceptualisation can affect whether research relevant to CPV is identified as part of the CPV evidence base.
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Fact of the day – 25th October
Spanish studies have often found girls and boys may use different forms of aggression. For instance, a study by Esther Calvete and colleagues (2013), involving 1,072 adolescents, found no significant sex difference in reported physical child-to-parent violence, but verbal aggression was more prevalent among girls.
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12th October – fact of the day
In a non-representative Australian survey of more than 5,000 young people aged 16–20, 20% reported having used violence against a family member. Among those reporting family violence, 51% reported violence towards their mother, 37% towards their father and 68% towards a sibling.
CAPVA can affect the whole family.
Australian research reminds us that siblings can be affected by adolescent family violence too.
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11th October – fact of the day
One of the earliest written legal references to a child using violence against a parent appears in the Code of Hammurabi, from ancient Babylon, dated to around the 18th century BCE (some older sources give earlier dates). Law 195 specifically addresses a son striking his father and prescribes an extremely severe punishment: his hands were to be cut off. Historical scholarship on violence against parents identifies this as very early evidence that societies formally recognised violence by offspring towards parents thousands of years ago
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10th October – fact of the day
Break4 change the first UK evidence based group supporting families launched in Brighton 2009
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9th October – fact of the day
MYTH: “They behave fine at school, so it can’t be that serious at home.”
FACT: Behaviour can be context-dependent. A young person appearing regulated in one environment doesn’t invalidate what a parent is experiencing at home.
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8th October – fact of the day
There is no single international definition of CAPVA. However, Australia, Canada and Spain have independently created national terms and definitions to improve reporting.
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