Mothers, Domestic Violence, and Child Protection

Toward Collaboration and Engagement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12437271
AutoresHeather Douglas (0000-0002-0420-3820, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia,, autor de correspondencia), Tamara Walsh (0000-0003-4119-3550, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
Año2010
Volumen16
Número5
Páginas537-542
Fecha de publicación2010-04-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801210366291
OpenAlexW2140706332
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas4

We appreciate the opportunity to consider the responses from the four commentators to our discussion in the main article in this symposium. The workers we interviewed for the main article identified a disconnect between the domestic violence and child protections fields, and similarly the commentators, from four diverse professional backgrounds and from different jurisdictions and using different languages and metaphors, also accepted this was the current situation. Hester identifies what she refers to as three planets of domestic violence, child contact or visitation, and child protection. She observes that these planets have distinct cultural histories underpinning practices and outcomes. Humphreys similarly refers to the great divide between the community and voluntary sector and the statutory child protection services. Mandel refers to the need to improve “cross system dialog” and Goodmark appears to accept there is a need to improve relations “between” victimized mothers and child protection. This symposium in itself has provided an opportunity to engage professionally beyond these identified divisions

Child protection · Criminology · Domestic violence · Environmental health · Poison control · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Statutory law · Suicide prevention · Child Abuse and Trauma · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine