Child-to-Parent Violence—Raising Preventive Awareness

Child-to-parent violence refers to a type of intrafamily violence of an ascending nature, characterized by aggressions perpetrated by children against their parents. This phenomenon has deserved exponential interest among the academic community and society in general, as a result of the greater visibility it has received. It was referenced for the first time in the late 1950s, when it was originally called “battered parent syndrome”, and predominantly focused on the permissive attitudes of mothers in response to the aggression of sons and daughters. Despite more than half a century having passed, this type of violence still constitutes a rather hidden problem. This chapter aims to synthesize the main research findings on the phenomenon and contribute to making this social and public health problem visible. It is concluded that the phenomenon emerges from the complementarity of a set of family, educational, social, and personal risk factors on which it is necessary to act.