Two new papers on Understanding Connections and Relationships from the Family Violence Clearinghouse.
Issues Paper 3: Understanding connections and relationships: Child maltreatment, intimate partner violence and parenting
Murphy, C., Paton, N., Gulliver, P., & Fanslow, J.
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This paper reviews evidence on the co-occurrence of intimate partner violence and outlines the negative outcomes for children and young people’s health education, social and economic wellbeing.
“Recommendations from this paper include the need for greater recognition of:
- The links between child maltreatment and intimate partner violence
- The detrimental effects of children’s exposure to intimate partner violence
- The disruption to mother-child relationships due to intimate partner violence
- The poor fathering that can accompany perpetration of intimate partner violence”
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Issues Paper 4: Policy and practice implications: Child maltreatment, intimate partner violence and parenting
Murphy, C., Paton, N., Gulliver, P., & Fanslow, J.
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This paper explores in detail the system responses required to support children exposed to intimate partner violence and highlights key principles for intervention. The paper calls for services to work in co-ordinated and collaborative ways, as part of multi-agency response systems, with a sophisticated understanding of intimate partner violence.
“Guiding principles for protecting children and adults exposed to child maltreatment and intimate partner violence include:
- Provide holistic support for children
- Support the non-abusing parent
- Support the mother-child relationship
- Hold the perpetrator accountable
- Be culturally responsive”