When Love Strikes: On Violence and Injustice in Families

Opens your eyes to the hidden micro-terrorism of every day
With concrete information for emergency services

Violence is in the home: a slogan that has been taboo in our society until now. The ideal image of the perfect family works as a veil. The silence surrounding this age-old problem is slowly being broken.

When 'love' strikes. About violence and injustice in families, the reader learns to see signs of abuse and how to deal with them. After all, violence occurs in all layers of society, in many forms and gradations. Experts from Flanders and the Netherlands each shed light on a specific facet of the complex theme: domestic violence, child abuse, relationships between brothers and sisters, elder abuse, treatment of perpetrator and offender, the ethical implications of domestic violence, prevention and dealing with violence... In doing so, they puncture clichés such as men are never victims, or women do not commit physical violence and only talk out their conflicts.

There is no model answer. This book aims to make the problem visible and discussable, to ensure that families are given new perspectives for a new start.

With contributions by Justine van Lawick, Susanne Kers, Herman Baartman, An Haekens, Smadar Célestin-Westreich, Yannic van Gils, Leon-Patrice Celestin, Ingrid Ponjaert-Kristoffersen, Peter Adriaenssens, Liesbet Smeyers, Liesbet Stevens, Ruard Ganzevoort and Annemie Dillen.