Gendered Discourses of Responsibility and Domestic Abuse Victim-Blame in the English Children ’s Social Care System

ConclusionThe paper has implications for policy and practice, asserting that shifting responsibility away from mothers requires the ongoing interrogation of normative understandings of gender relations and gender-role stereotypes as they manifest in families. Fathers ’ accountability should be constructed on a structural as well as individual level, which in the case of DVA and the family, incorporates efforts to enable perpetrators of DVA to cultivate an individual sense of responsibility and accountability, as standard practice.

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Source: Journal of Family Violence - September 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research