Children's Perspectives on Domestic Violence

Children in Their Own Issue A Shift of Approach Researching with Children on a Sensitive Topic What Children Know and Understand about Domestic Violence Children's Experiences of Living with Domestic Violence Children's Coping Strategies Barriers of Racism, Ethnicity and Culture The Influence of Domestic Violence on Relationships between Children and Their Mothers Life with a Violent Father Listening to the Children The Way Ahead

`This book offers accessible and interesting reading. It is well written as one would expect from these authors.... There are a lot of pointers for the way forward in terms of both policy and practice. This is likely to become a seminal text' - Research Policy and Planning `Just looking at the authors of this book tells the reader that they are about to embark on a pioneering piece of academic research... a comprehensive and authoritative piece of work' - Domestic Abuse Quarterly `A vital tool for all those working with children' - ChildRight 'This book is powerfully written and is essential reading for professional working with and supporting abused women and their children. Its groundbreaking focus on children's experiences adds much to our understanding of the complexities of domestic violence' - Journal of Family Studies