eprintid: 10199463 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/19/94/63 datestamp: 2024-11-04 08:12:12 lastmod: 2024-11-04 08:12:12 status_changed: 2024-11-04 08:12:12 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Dalgarno, E creators_name: Bramwell, D creators_name: Verma, A creators_name: Ayeb-Karlsson, S title: ‘Let’s excuse abusive men from abusing and enable sexual abuse’: child sexual abuse investigations in England’s private family courts ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C06 keywords: Social Sciences, Law, Government & Law, Domestic abuse, family court, private law, child sexual abuse, intra-familial sexual abuse, parental alienation, human rights, women, PARENTAL ALIENATION, CUSTODY, CONTRADICTIONS note: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. abstract: Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is an ongoing scourge upon society. There is minimal understanding of the experiences of mothers and children in private law family court proceedings (PLP), when CSA is reported. A qualitative study was conducted and a feminist-informed Foucauldian Discourse Analysis was applied to understand ten life-stories from within a larger sample of 45. Five themes are presented. CSA was overwhelmingly reported as being minimised, with harmful outcomes for children and mothers reported. Pro-father and ‘parental alienation’ narratives were a facilitator of severe harm and continued male violence to victim-survivor mothers and children. Further research into the scale and prevalence of CSA within PLP is urgently required. date: 2024-08-28 date_type: published publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2024.2382501 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2312546 doi: 10.1080/09649069.2024.2382501 lyricists_name: Ayeb Karlsson, Sonja lyricists_id: SAYEB29 actors_name: Ayeb Karlsson, Sonja actors_id: SAYEB29 actors_role: owner funding_acknowledgements: [UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Participatory Research Fund] full_text_status: public publication: Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law volume: 46 number: 3 pagerange: 345-365 pages: 21 issn: 0964-9069 citation: Dalgarno, E; Bramwell, D; Verma, A; Ayeb-Karlsson, S; (2024) ‘Let’s excuse abusive men from abusing and enable sexual abuse’: child sexual abuse investigations in England’s private family courts. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law , 46 (3) pp. 345-365. 10.1080/09649069.2024.2382501 <https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2024.2382501>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10199463/1/Dalgarno%20et%20al%202024b.pdf