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This presentation critically explores child protection practices with non-offending mothers in situations of child sexual abuse from a feminist theoretical perspective. Our presentation offers a cursory overview of the key principles and practices that guide child protection assessments and responses to child sexual abuse. We then briefly look back at how non-offending mothers have been centrally placed in the problem and resolution of child sexual abuse, paying particular attention to the shifting terrain from the 1980s onward, wherein mothers have moved from being blameworthy to responsible for protection. Turning to a review of feminist scholarship on mothering we explore a …
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Five year old Brandon is in the throes of a vicious tantrum. Cindy, his mother, is standing back in order to prevent this incident from escalating into a physical brawl. The other shelter residents are tense and plead with Cindy's worker to take control of the situation. The worker respects Cindy's efforts to refrain from exacerbating the situation but worries about the effects on the other residents and what might happen should Cindy leave the shelter as she has been hinting. This scenario encapsulates the complications of practice with mothers in shelters: with recent concerns about intimate partner abuse's effects …
