Child-on-parent violence is a taboo subject and one that is hardly researched in the UK. We speak to Lesley, a mother who lives with daily violence from her eldest son. It has devastated family life and exposed gaps in a system not set up to deal with the problem. Plus: Emma Graham-Harrison on the Nobel peace prize winners Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, who receive their awards today
When we talk about domestic violence, we rarely think of children attacking their parents. In this episode we speak to a mother who describes the daily violence she suffers at the hands of her son. To protect the family, she is not using her real name. We are calling her Lesley Clough and her son Tom.
She tells Anushka Asthana about the years of worsening violence and the lack of support she has received – and why she finally decided to write about her own experience in the course of her research. Lesley
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