‘Because I love him’: Children’s relationships to their parents in the context of intimate partner violence

This paper investigates how children experience and practice parental relationships after moving to a women’s refuge. Most research has explored the moving and separation process from women’s perspectives, but this paper focus on children’s perspectives. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interview...

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Published inChildhood (Copenhagen, Denmark) Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 231 - 244
Main Author Henze-Pedersen, Sofie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.05.2021
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Attachment
Children
Dating
Domestic violence
Families & family life
Family relations
Intimate partner violence
Love
Parents & parenting
Refuge
Women
intimate partner violence
parental relationships
women’s refuge
intimate social bonds
Children
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Summary:This paper investigates how children experience and practice parental relationships after moving to a women’s refuge. Most research has explored the moving and separation process from women’s perspectives, but this paper focus on children’s perspectives. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with children at a refuge, the analysis shows how children’s parental relationships – despite the violence – remain important under difficult family circumstances, and how children practice intimate social bonds while being embedded within complex family relationships. This brings attention to the wider contexts of children’s relationships and how these affect children’s experiences and practices of intimate social bonds.
ISSN:0907-5682
1461-7013
DOI:10.1177/0907568220984835