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Finally! Parenting Education for Men Who Abuse or Control Their Partners (Workshop 97)
Abusive men, compared with men who do not batter, are more likely both to abuse and to neglect their children. The presenter reviews the rationale and curriculum for parenting education groups geared specifically to men who abuse or control their intimate partners.
Research studies find that between 30 to 50 percent of men who batter also have physically abused their children and that virtually all expose their children to the abuse of their mothers. Exposure to domestic violence is known to have many harmful and long-term effects on children. Children who live with domestic violence are more likely to experience developmental delays, develop mental health problems, abuse alcohol and drugs, engage in premature sexual behavior, drop out of school, and demonstrate behavior problems, including criminal behavior. Post marital separation, many abusive men continue to have contentious relationships with the mothers of their children. Frequently, this takes the form of attempts to undermine the mother's relationship with her children, as well as inconsistent ways of engaging and repairing trust with the children.
Another distinctive feature of abusive men is that many are estranged from the mother of their children and, consequently, often have only supervised visits or infrequent contacts with their children. This means they at times have only limited opportunities to learn and to practice healthy parenting and to rebuild trust with their children. Those men who do have contact with their children also frequently lack a common understanding with the mother about appropriate parenting and child rearing.
The presenter profiles the common parenting problems exhibited by abusive men and then describes the 15-session Caring Dads curriculum that is designed to help both custodial and non-custodial fathers become more knowledgeable, caring, and responsible co-parents. Case examples illustrate positive responses to this curriculum. The session also covers how "smaller doses" of parenting education have been integrated into abuser intervention groups.
David Adams, Ed.D
Emerge: Counseling and Education to Stop Domestic Violence
2464 Massachusetts Avenue
Suite 101
Cambridge, MA 02140
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