Parent abuse : the abuse of parents by their teenage children
Cottrell, Barbara
Parent abuse : the abuse of parents by their teenage children Cottrell, Barbara; Health Canada. Family Violence Prevention Unit - Ottawa Health Canada 2001 - 49 p.
There are striking similarities between current attitudes toward parent abuse and the old attitudes toward wife abuse. Parents are usually the first people blamed for the behaviour of their children, but there are few supports and interventions available to them. There is also little public awareness of parent abuse. To determine the nature and parameters of parent abuse, initial research was conducted in 1995-96 in Halifax, Nova Scotia by Barbara Cottrell and Mary Anne Finlayson of Meta Research and Communications. The project was sponsored by the Captain William Spry Community Centre, the Committee Against Woman Abuse and the Family Service Association of the Halifax Regional Municipality, and was funded by Health Canada. We talked to parents, professionals and adolescents in group discussions and in formal and informal individual interviews. We listened to 45 parents who had experienced parent abuse; 39 teenagers; 34 community workers, clinicians, academics and other professionals. A number of people interviewed self-identified as both a professional and a parent of an abusive teen. We also researched the literature and found a huge void on the topic of the abuse of parents by their teenage children. A 1993 literature review prepared for the Family Violence Prevention Division of Health Canada (Four Variations of Family Violence: A Review of Sociological Research, 1993: 8) states that the substantial body of data on family violence includes little reliable information on forms of violence other than spousal abuse. It warns that "(M)any young people ... physically victimize their parents. Again, this is a problem that has been, by and large, ignored by Canadian researchers." Little has been published on the topic since then, yet counsellors, social workers and other professionals continue to hear from clients more and more anecdotal evidence of this form of family violence.--FROM INTRODUCTION
Note: This report is no longer available on the internet. In 2004,the author of this report, published "When teens abuse their parent". Click on the More information link for the publisher's information on this book. This book may be available through inter library loan from your local library.
ADOLESCENTS
OFFENDERS
PARENT ADOLESCENT RELATIONSHIP
PARENTING
PHYSICAL ABUSE
PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
VICTIMS
YOUNG PEOPLE
PARENTAL ABUSE
CANADA
Parent abuse : the abuse of parents by their teenage children Cottrell, Barbara; Health Canada. Family Violence Prevention Unit - Ottawa Health Canada 2001 - 49 p.
There are striking similarities between current attitudes toward parent abuse and the old attitudes toward wife abuse. Parents are usually the first people blamed for the behaviour of their children, but there are few supports and interventions available to them. There is also little public awareness of parent abuse. To determine the nature and parameters of parent abuse, initial research was conducted in 1995-96 in Halifax, Nova Scotia by Barbara Cottrell and Mary Anne Finlayson of Meta Research and Communications. The project was sponsored by the Captain William Spry Community Centre, the Committee Against Woman Abuse and the Family Service Association of the Halifax Regional Municipality, and was funded by Health Canada. We talked to parents, professionals and adolescents in group discussions and in formal and informal individual interviews. We listened to 45 parents who had experienced parent abuse; 39 teenagers; 34 community workers, clinicians, academics and other professionals. A number of people interviewed self-identified as both a professional and a parent of an abusive teen. We also researched the literature and found a huge void on the topic of the abuse of parents by their teenage children. A 1993 literature review prepared for the Family Violence Prevention Division of Health Canada (Four Variations of Family Violence: A Review of Sociological Research, 1993: 8) states that the substantial body of data on family violence includes little reliable information on forms of violence other than spousal abuse. It warns that "(M)any young people ... physically victimize their parents. Again, this is a problem that has been, by and large, ignored by Canadian researchers." Little has been published on the topic since then, yet counsellors, social workers and other professionals continue to hear from clients more and more anecdotal evidence of this form of family violence.--FROM INTRODUCTION
Note: This report is no longer available on the internet. In 2004,the author of this report, published "When teens abuse their parent". Click on the More information link for the publisher's information on this book. This book may be available through inter library loan from your local library.
ADOLESCENTS
OFFENDERS
PARENT ADOLESCENT RELATIONSHIP
PARENTING
PHYSICAL ABUSE
PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
VICTIMS
YOUNG PEOPLE
PARENTAL ABUSE
CANADA