Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Commentary on “Mothers, Domestic Violence, and Child Protection,” by Heather Douglas and Tamara Walsh
Other Titles:	Violence against women
Authors:	Hester, Marianne
Keywords:	Parenting;Child protection;Service provision
Year:	2010
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Citation:	16 (5), May 2010
Notes:	Douglas and Walsh outline the often problematic and negative outcomes for both women and children experiencing violence from male partners, resulting from contradictory practices of professionals dealing with domestic violence. Though the article is about Australia, these are issues that are equally valid and relevant, and continually repeated, across many countries. The authors are especially concerned with what they identify as contradictory practices and discourses relating to domestic violence within child protection work. However, these problems may also be understood within a wider set of contradictions related to the areas involving direct work with victims and perpetrators of domestic violence, child protection, and child contact or visitation. These three areas, at least in the United Kingdom, have developed in such different ways that they might be conceptualized as being located on three separate “planets,” each with their own separate histories, culture, laws, and populations (i.e., sets of professionals). [?2010 SAGE Publications. All rights reserved. For further information, visit SAGE Publications link.]
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13924
ISSN:	1077-8012
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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