All Outputs (3)

Adapting Family Group Conferencing to address social conditions of harm (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Owens, R. (2022, December). Adapting Family Group Conferencing to address social conditions of harm. Presented at 11th European Conference for Social Work Research, Amsterdam

Shifting the blame: a contextual view of young motherhood (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Owens, R. (2022, December). Shifting the blame: a contextual view of young motherhood. Presented at Contextual Mothering Symposium - Performance and the Maternal, Cardiff Campus, University of South Wales

'It's the way they look at you': Why discrimination towards young parents is a policy and practice issue (2022)
Journal Article
Owens, R. (2022). 'It's the way they look at you': Why discrimination towards young parents is a policy and practice issue. Children & Society, 36(6), 1280-1295. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12575

Qualitative research has long critiqued a simplistic association between youth parenting and poor outcomes. Despite this, the UK youth parenting policy continues to view young parents through a narrow deficit lens, focused on assumed risk rather than... Read More about 'It's the way they look at you': Why discrimination towards young parents is a policy and practice issue.