Constructing Men in Child Protection Work  

Oleh:

Scourfield, Jonathan B.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Men and Masculinities vol. 4 no. 1 (Jul. 2001), page 70-89.
Topik: child protection; child abuse; social work; social construction; discourse; masculinity
Fulltext: 70MMS41.pdf (90.27KB)

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The child protection process has been characterized by some commentators as being primarily concerned with the scrutiny of mothering. For a variety of reasons, social workers tend to spend relatively little time working with men in families where children are considered to be at risk. Even where a man is considered to be the primary abuser in a family, the usual approach is to concentrate on the mother’s “failure to protect” the children. This article presents an analysis of data from an ethnographic study in a child and family social work team in the United Kingdom, which set out to explore this concentration on mothering and avoidance of men. The article outlines some discourses of masculinity in the occupational culture of child protection social work: men as a threat, men as no use, men as irrelevant, men as absent, men as no different fromwomen, and men as better than women. The author’s contention is that if injustice to women in social work provision is to be addressed, these gendered constructions of clients have to be made explicit and their implications understood.

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