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Mothering and everyday life during and in the aftermath of domestic violence among women with immigrant backgrounds in Norway.
- Source :
- Child & Family Social Work; Aug2020 Supplement S1, Vol. 25, p37-44, 8p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- This paper focuses on how immigrant women experience and negotiate their everyday life with children prior to and after leaving a violent partner. Twenty‐three women staying at domestic violence and abuse shelters with their children were interviewed about their experiences with assistance services and their everyday life with their children. At the time of the interviews, most of the women were legally separated or divorced and were either living in or in touch daily with shelters. In this paper, we look at some of the challenges that women face when exposed to violence in a relationship that involves children. Being exposed to violence from a partner raises a number of economic, practical, and emotional concerns, both prior to and after leaving. For the mothers in our study, maintaining a regular routine is key to making the children feel safe in an unpredictable setting. For many, economic dependence on the partner is replaced with economic dependence on assistance services after leaving the partner. Services must recognize that providing help to mothers who have left a violent partner constitutes more than just practical support but is crucial for mothers' ability to re‐establish a predictable everyday life with their children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- INTIMATE partner violence
MOTHERHOOD & psychology
PSYCHOLOGY of abused women
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CHILDREN'S accident prevention
DIVORCE
EMOTIONS
DOMESTIC violence
IMMIGRANTS
INTERVIEWING
MARITAL status
MATHEMATICAL models
MOTHER-child relationship
PSYCHOLOGY of mothers
QUALITATIVE research
THEORY
FAMILY relations
SOCIAL support
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13567500
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Child & Family Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 144497731
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12710