Gender and the child protection process |
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Farmer,-Elaine; Owen,-Morag
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| Date |
8/1/98
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Journal
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British-Journal-of-Social-Work
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Vol 28(4): 545-564
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Gender Issues
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| Pedagogies |
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| Abstract |
In the debate about finding a new balance between child protection and family support, there has been silence on
the issue of the impact of gender on child protection work. Using data on 44 children from one of the studies in
the Department of Health (E. Farmer and M. Owen, 1995) child protection research programme, this article
examines the impact of gender at each stage of the child protection process. It shows that mothers have tended to
be under-represented in relation to offers of service and over-included in respect of agencies efforts to control
them. When social work practice in cases of physical or sexual abuse by men focuses exclusively on mothers, this
allows men s violence to their female partners to be ignored. This practice has been sustained in recent years, even
though the child protection system itself developed in response to public anxiety about child deaths caused by
men .((c) 1999 APA/PsycINFO, all rights reserved)
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