Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-229) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Peter Jaffe -- 1. The battering problem -- 2. Power parenting : the batterer's style with children -- 3. Shock waves : the batterer's impact on the home -- 4. The batter as incest perpetrator / Lundy Bancroft and Margaret Miller -- 5. Impeding recovery : the batterer in custody and visitation disputes -- 6. The mismeasure of batterers as parents : a critique of prevailing theories of assessment -- 7. Supporting recovery : assessing risk to children from batterers and structuring visitation -- 8. Is it real? : assessing and fostering change in batterers as parents -- 9. Improving community responses to the parenting of batterers.