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.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | ‘Let’s excuse abusive men from abusing and enable sexual abuse’: child sexual abuse investigations in England’s private family courts |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09649069.2024.2382501 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2024.2382501 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 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. |
| 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 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10199463 |
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