‘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 in | Childhood (Copenhagen, Denmark) Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 231 - 244 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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London, England
SAGE Publications
01.05.2021
Sage Publications Ltd |
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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. |
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ISSN: | 0907-5682 1461-7013 |
DOI: | 10.1177/0907568220984835 |