More parents being abused at home

A GROWING number of parents and grandparents were being abused in the home, a women’s support group warned yesterday.

A conference on domestic violence was told that pregnant mothers were not the only easy targets for bullying partners but that grandparents and elderly parents were being preyed on, mentally and physically, by family members.

"You don't need a bruise to be abused," was the message conveyed to the Women in Focus conference in Cork by support group Mná Feasa, which assists women victims of domestic violence.