Sentences with phrase «between abusive parents»

Not exact matches

When abusive relationships have occurred limited contact between parents, as well as, children, may be in a child's best interest.

Hopefully, the distinction between controversial, abusive parenting and therapeutic practices versus developmentally appropriate attachment parenting is now clearer.

In almost all abusive situations, children witness the violence that occurs between their parents even if they are not themselves physically abused.

The similarities between Rimbaud's life and Wojnarowicz's are striking: They lived exactly a century apart and both died in their late 30s; each came from a broken home with abusive parents; both fled to the big city — Rimbaud to Paris, Wojnarowicz to New York; both were gay, and each found a surrogate father in the form of an older lover — Paul Verlaine for Rimbaud, Peter Hujar for Wojnarowicz.

Over two and a half hours, we engaged in a rich discussion about how changes in family law in BC are playing out in the lives of mothers with abusive or harassing exes, and what strategies can help women cope with challenging legal situations like litigation harassment, denial of parenting time, parenting assessment reports, and the overlap between child protection and family law matters.

Thus, clearly distinguishing between abusive and non-abusive parents will always be difficult.

This may include the ability of the custodial parent to encourage a relationship between the child and non-custodial parent, or the ability of the custodial parent to keep the child away from an abusive non-custodial parent.

To make this decision, the courts consider many factors including, but not limited to, the child's preference if he or she is mature enough to make a decision; the ability and willingness of each parent to provide for the child's physical, intellectual and emotional well - being; the willingness of the custodial parent to provide continuing contact between the child and the noncustodial parent; and abusive or criminal conduct by the other parent.

Intergenerational transmission of abusive parenting (e.g., Egeland et al. 1988) even among parents who consciously attempt to be good parents, further suggests a strong link between a parent's own experienced upbringing and his / her parenting of his / her own children.

Both research and our own observations lead us to expect that having been abused or neglected or having witnessed violence between parents as a child will contribute to an individual's increased risk to abuse or neglect one's own child or to be involved in an abusive relationship as an adult.

In a notebook, record detailed information about parenting behavior (yours and the other parent's), abusive behaviors, threatening statements made, and explanations of any confrontations between the two of you.

By responding as if these minor elicited criticisms actually represent severe parental failures on your part, the child is led into falsely believing that these normal - range interactions between you and the child were actually «evidence» of your «abusive» parenting practices toward the child.

Hopefully, the distinction between controversial, abusive parenting and therapeutic practices versus developmentally appropriate attachment parenting is now clearer.

Results suggest the screening and assessment procedure differentiated between parents with greater and lesser degrees of risk for being abusive or neglectful.

For example, the below commenting MHP — who has been a parenting coordinator («case manager») on at least one case known to the author in which a severely battered woman lost custody of her daughter to the abusive father, and who regularly performs custody evaluations as well — appears oblivious to the impact of MHP fees (which typically are divided equally between the parents) on a parent with substantially lower income than the other: [ANONYMOUS LISTSERVE COMMENT]: «If you want the parents to cooperate, why not add a provision that they must go back to mediation or to a parent coordinator if they can not come to an agreement.

In describing DV as «a dynamic between parents» (p. 8), and making statements such as when «parents are entangled in an abusive relationship» (p. 12), «when there is violence at home» (p. 8), and «violence or abuse in the parents» relationship» (p. 9), rather than discussing abusers who batter their partners, most mental health professionals doing custody evaluations, mediation or otherwise involved in custody disputes, who have been schooled in the family systems dynamic, will continue to see the problem as involving the dysfunction of both parents.

It relieves an innocent parent of the responsibility to promote a relationship between the child and an abusive parent, and committing abuse weighs against a parent and may cost him custody.

The mean scores for harsh / abusive and nurturing parenting, and maternal mental health, were similar between the two groups.