Hi there,
We've received the following media request.
Thanks,
MNHQ
The Telegraph has asked me to write a piece about the issue of child to parent abuse - parents who are coping with a child who has started to become physically violent towards them. They could be coping with this presently, or they could be further along now and this to have happened a while ago. The physical abuse would have started when the child was relatively young though.
Ideally we would like to identify interviewees, but given the sensitivity of this issue we could change names or use first name only. We would like to photograph interviewees in some way though, be that profile or behind etc. Naturally we wouldn't expect to identify children.
The piece would also introduce expert opinion discussing potential drivers and routes for support so it is aimed at being a helpful piece to anyone else going through this. Interviewees could contact me directly if they might be open to talking about their experience - happy to have an informal chat first of all to answer their questions. I'm at [email protected] Ideally I would hear from people by the end of this week.