Parents abused by their children often suffer in silence – specialist therapy is helping them find a voice

By Gemma Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Swansea University
Joseph Janes, Lecturer in Criminology, Swansea University

Home is not always a place of safety for everyone. This is an unspoken reality for some parents who endure abuse at the hands of their children. From physical violence to emotional manipulation, this largely hidden issue cuts across families of all backgrounds.

For too long, stigma and silence have allowed child-to-parent abuse to fester in the shadows, unacknowledged in policy discussions and under-researched in academic circles. But a recent study of ours analysed a therapeutic…

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