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Violence and children

February 26, 2002

News from the Royal Society of Medicine conference Domestic Violence & Children (4-5 March 2002):

"The press would be horrified if they could see what's happening in the family courts"
Ms Hilary Saunders, Women's Aid Federation, - Problems that abused women & children face
At the point when a woman leaves an abusive relationship, she and her children are at the greatest risk of violence from her partner, warns Ms Saunders. Yet this is when the UK legal system can actually make the situation worse, because many parents (usually fathers) with a history of violence and sometimes even child abuse are being awarded contact orders allowing them to see their children unsupervised. Ms Saunders claims that statistics show the situation to be getting worse, and will explain why organisations like hers are calling for an amendment in the law beyond the good practice guidelines currently in place in the family courts.

When A&E staff have a duty beyond treating broken bones
Dr Rosalind Roden, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, - A&E Departments
When someone arrives in casualty as a result of domestic violence, should medical staff get involved? Dr Roden will argue that A&E personnel have a duty to offer other kinds of help besides physical treatment - explaining the patient's rights, making phone calls to refuges if necessary, and suggesting alternatives to returning to a violent relationship. She will describe how she and her colleagues learned how to do this, as part of a special training programme developed in Leeds. She talks frankly about the change in her own attitudes to domestic violence after training, and will explain how it is possible, and vital, to help abused patients find solutions and support, "even in the middle of a busy A&E department on a Saturday night."

New findings on teenage violence
Professor David Wolfe, University of Western Ontario, Canada, - Empowering youth to develop healthy relationships
Professor Wolfe will report on a new controlled study into teenagers' behaviour patterns as they start dating. Results suggest that relationship violence can be reduced and even prevented if at-risk groups are helped in their mid-teens. He will describe his Center's Youth Relationships Program, which the study found to be effective in reducing physical and emotional abuse and symptoms of emotional distress among teenagers who had previously been maltreated as children. Since research shows that many offenders repeat patterns of violence that they themselves experienced, Professor Wolfe suggests that a key to breaking the cycle is intervention at adolescence, when new patterns of relationship behaviour are being learned.

Domestic violence: "one case reported every six minutes"
District Judge Marilyn Mornington, Liverpool, - Contact with a a violent parent: the legal aspects
Judge Mornington calls the UK's response to domestic violence "our ultimate failure", with one woman murdered every three days and many children killed and injured during legally awarded contact with a violent parent. She will discuss her work training medics, magistrates, and judges in awareness of the issues surrounding domestic violence, and the need to get people talking across agencies and professions about how to tackle the root of the problem and save lives.

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