Family Matters: Relationships between abusive parents and their children in a family contact centre

Journal title MALTRATTAMENTO E ABUSO ALL’INFANZIA
Author/s Mara Pirotta
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2022/3
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 61-75 File size 163 KB
DOI 10.3280/MAL2022-003004
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What is a family contact centre? How can this service guarantee the child's right to access and be in a relationship with his/her abusive parent? Which strategies can be used to protect and at the same time facilitate the parent-child relationship? How to involve the parent who has custody of the child in the protection path in a logic of co-participation? These are some of the questions which will be discussed in this paper attempting to connect practices, theories, and educational actions implemented in a family contact centre. Fundamental is the design of the pedagogical space-time setting and activities to ensure a safe environment for the child and to question parenting and caring roles and styles into an experiential context.

Keywords: child protection, pedagogical design, parenting styles, experiential context, parental responsibility, educative roles.

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Mara Pirotta, Questioni di Famiglia: la relazione del genitore maltrattante con il figlio all’interno di un servizio di Spazio Neutro in "MALTRATTAMENTO E ABUSO ALL’INFANZIA" 3/2022, pp 61-75, DOI: 10.3280/MAL2022-003004