This book analyses the introduction, development and reification of
the concepts of 'children witnessing' and mothers 'failing to
protect' as powerful and currently dominant child welfare ideas in
the United Kingdom and Canada. Discourse analysis methods from a
number of sources were drawn on to reveal and interpret how and why
the discourse of 'failure to protect' has emerged, how it shapes
and informs child protection practice and policy, and the effects
on both mothers and social workers. Strega demonstrates that the
concepts of 'children witnessing' and mothers 'failing to protect'
are constructed, enacted and deployed in ways that maintain and
perhaps even increase the nature and extent of violence against
women and children. She contends that the rhetoric and actions
engendered by these discourses are in themselves injurious to
women, both individually in cases where mothers lose or are
threatened with the loss of their children, and collectively in
contributing to a continuing failure to hold responsible or even
notice men who perpetrate violence against mothers.
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