Takes a multi-disciplinary approach to exploring issues surrounding domestic violence. This text draws on contemporary research findings, policy developments, practice and case studies to explore directions in professional and voluntary sector responses to domestic violence.[...]
Current family policy approaches emphasise the significance of paternal involvement in children's lives, yet there has been a silence on violent and abusive fathering in these discourses. This is the first UK book to specifically focus on violent fathering discussing original research in the context[...]