scholarly journals Mother–child relations in adulthood within and across national borders: non-Western immigrants in the Netherlands

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 2010-2035 ◽  
Author(s):  
ILSE N. ROOYACKERS ◽  
HELGA A. G. DE VALK ◽  
EVA-MARIA MERZ
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Practical Support ◽  
Mother Child Relationships ◽  
Intergenerational Ties ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
Mother Child Relations

ABSTRACTWe examined structures of (trans)national mother–child relationships in adulthood among non-Western immigrants in the Netherlands and assessed how acculturation impacted these intergenerational ties. From the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study, Turkish, Moroccan, Surinamese and Antillean respondents were selected whose mother lived in the Netherlands (N = 360) or abroad (N = 316). First, extending a previous typology of immigrant mother–child relations in the Netherlands, Latent Class Analysis was conducted for transnational relations. As expected, combining information about given and/or received emotional and financial support resulted in an emotional-interdependent and detached transnational mother–child relationship. Second, acculturation effects were estimated by using relationship assignment as a dependent variable, performing Logistic Regressions on our uni-national and transnational sample. Findings were mixed, suggesting acculturation impacts differently on family relations within and across borders. Overall, our results demonstrate the importance of reciprocal affective ties in a transnational context, also in the absence of financial or practical support, and show the relevance of distinguishing different facets of acculturation.

scholarly journals Effect of Emotional Closeness in Mother-Child Relationship on the Child’s Relationships with Peers at Preschool Age

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
M.V. Bulygina ◽  
E.L. Myachina
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Peer Interactions ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Emotional Closeness ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Emotional Relationships ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Mother Child Relationships ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

The paper presents outcomes of an empirical study that aimed to explore the correlation between mother-child relationships and the child’s relationships with peers at preschool age. The hypothesis was that the character and degree of emotional closeness between the mother and the child affects the quality of the child’s interactions with peers. The study involved 166 subjects: 83 children aged 4—5 years from Moscow kindergartens and their mothers. As it was found, different types of emotional relationships between the mother and the child (distant, emotionally close, normal) are associated with certain features of peer interactions. Interacting with peers was most problematic in the children whose mothers are emotionally distant from them. Those children who were in very close emotional relationships with their mothers had much more conflicts with peers as well. The mothers in this group were also less adequate and more permissive when evaluating their child’s proneness to conflict.

scholarly journals Role of Genetic and Environmental Factors in the Development of Empathy

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.O. Yudina
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Biological Factors ◽  
Empathy Development ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Genetic And Environmental Factors ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

The paper provides a review of studies on factors influencing empathy development in early childhood and on conditions promoting manifestation of empathy in children later in life. The outcomes of several studies shed light on the character of empathic response at early stages of child development, particularly in infancy and toddlerhood. This review covers research on the role of biological factors and mechanisms in empathy development (for instance, features of temperament and neuronal bases), as well as research on the relationship between genetic and environmental factors in the development of empathy in ontogenesis. Another part of the paper describes studies on the role of social conditions in the development of empathy in childhood: it focuses primarily on family relations and, in particular, on the mother/child relationship. The paper concludes with several suggestions concerning further research of the specified problem.

Mother-Child Relationships in Rehabilitation of the Physically Disabled

1951 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 261-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann M. Powers ◽  
Morris Grayson ◽  
Joseph Levi
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physical Medicine ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Diagnostic Decision ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mother Child Relationships ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

1. The mother-child relationship may constitute an obstacle to the effective rehabilitation of the disabled younger group. This relationship has to be seen as a dynamic one, involving the body image of the mother as well as that of the child. 2. A casework diagnostic decision regarding whom to attempt to refer—mother, child, or both—which includes psychiatric and psychological evaluation is frequently essential in assisting the social worker with this problem. 3. Following the patient's discharge, the need for continuing a casework contact after a lapse of a few months appears to be a decisive factor in some cases for eventual successful referral of the younger group. Proper handling of referrals, by the caseworker's understanding of the above factors, can mean success or failure in the rehabilitation of the young disabled person. It is equally important that physicians and other disciplines in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation, as well as social workers, recognize and assist in paving the way for proper referrals.

Trajectories of mother-child and father-child relationships across middle childhood and associations with depressive symptoms

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (04) ◽  
pp. 1381-1393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Yan ◽  
Sarah J. Schoppe-Sullivan ◽  
Xin Feng
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Lower Risk ◽  
Emotional Adjustment ◽  
Relationship Closeness ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Early Child Care ◽  
Mother Child Relationships ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

AbstractUsing a family systems perspective, we examined the trajectories of father-child and mother-child closeness and conflict across Grades 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6, and their associations with child depressive symptoms across middle childhood among 685 families in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD). Father-child and mother-child relationship conflict increased, whereas relationship closeness decreased from Grades 1 to 6. Girls with more slowly increasing father-child conflict, and more slowly decreasing father-child closeness, were at lower risk for depressive symptoms. Boys with more slowly increasing mother-child conflict were at lower risk for depressive symptoms. These findings highlight the important roles of both father-child and mother-child relationships in children's emotional adjustment during middle childhood.

scholarly journals Maternal incarceration : exploring the impact on children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Morrin Jenner
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Maternal Incarceration ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Mother Child Relationships ◽  
Child Friendly ◽  
The Law ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this exploratory research study was to examine the impact of maternal incarceration on mothers and their children from an ecological perpective. Individual interviews were conducted with four mothers who have previously been in conflict with the law and have been in custody for a minimum twelve months. Two primary workers from Elizabeth Fry Society of Simcoe County were also interviewed for another perspective pertaining to this topic. Participants were recruited by distributing advertisements at the Elizabeth Fry Society of Simcoe County. This study coincided with the literature and found that there are a number of combining factors from the broader system which impact the developmetnal outcomes of a child. After analyzing the data it appeared that there were two main aspects reported by all participants that affect children when their mothers are incarcerated. These include: System Barriers and Resouce Barriers. The participants from this study recommended child friendly centres and physical visitations to rectify and mainain the mother-child relationship while mothers are incarcerated. This study helped to deconstruct norms associated with traditional families and recognized the unique experiences of mother-child relationships during incarceration.

scholarly journals Maternal incarceration : exploring the impact on children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia Morrin Jenner
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Maternal Incarceration ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Mother Child Relationships ◽  
Child Friendly ◽  
The Law ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this exploratory research study was to examine the impact of maternal incarceration on mothers and their children from an ecological perpective. Individual interviews were conducted with four mothers who have previously been in conflict with the law and have been in custody for a minimum twelve months. Two primary workers from Elizabeth Fry Society of Simcoe County were also interviewed for another perspective pertaining to this topic. Participants were recruited by distributing advertisements at the Elizabeth Fry Society of Simcoe County. This study coincided with the literature and found that there are a number of combining factors from the broader system which impact the developmetnal outcomes of a child. After analyzing the data it appeared that there were two main aspects reported by all participants that affect children when their mothers are incarcerated. These include: System Barriers and Resouce Barriers. The participants from this study recommended child friendly centres and physical visitations to rectify and mainain the mother-child relationship while mothers are incarcerated. This study helped to deconstruct norms associated with traditional families and recognized the unique experiences of mother-child relationships during incarceration.

scholarly journals Coercive control of women as mothers via strategic mother–child separation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Monk ◽  
Erica Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Coercive Control ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Mother Child Relationships ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Child Separation ◽  
Mother Blaming ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
British Study

This study extends existing research into abusive men’s use of children as part of their strategies to undermine mothering roles: target women as mothers, damage mother–child relationships and cause mother–child separations. It is the first British study into strategic mother–child separation to be conducted with mothers who were actually separated from their children. The purpose of the study was to illuminate the tactics used in this type of coercive control, to assist women and practitioners to address this problem using recent UK coercive control legislation. Qualitative accounts of six women who described having their children turned against them by abusive ex-partners (who were also the children’s fathers) were examined. Thematic analysis identified eight themes as perpetrator tactics of strategic separation: 1) Lying to and manipulating children; 2) Sabotaging children’s contact with their mothers; 3) Weaponising children; 4) Conditioning children through reward and punishment; 5) Exploiting women’s vulnerability, particularly as mothers; 6) Threatening mothers with taking their children from them; 7) Actively employing mother-blaming by exploiting mother-blaming institutions and practices; and 8) Denigrating mothers and elevating themselves in order to supplant mothers as children’s primary caregivers and attachment figures. Because service responses fail to address this aspect of men’s violence against women and children, the article is positioned to inform policy, practice and service provision. Limitations are outlined and areas for further research highlighted.<br /><br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Abusive men’s strategic interference in the mother–child relationship is achieved through: the direct and indirect use and abuse of children, undermining mothers via mother-blaming; exploiting professionals, and capitalising on patriarchal institutions and mother-blaming theories, systems and practices.</li><br /><li>Recognising this form of abuse as a criminal offence could be addressed using the recent UK coercive control legislation.</li></ul>

Links between marital quality, the mother–child relationship and child behavior

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine M. Mark ◽  
Alison Pike
Keyword(s):  
Child Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Differential Outcomes ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Mother Child Relationships ◽  
Outcomes For Children ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
Target Children

We investigated the association between marital quality and child behavior, assessing mother–child relationship quality as a potential mediator. The sample included 78 mothers with two target children (mean ages = 9.82 and 12.05 years, respectively). Mothers reported on their children’s behavior as well as their marital quality, while each child reported on their relationship with their mother. Confirming our hypothesis, marital quality did relate to child behavior. Contrary to our expectations, the mother–child relationship provided negligible mediation of the link, but did provide significant prediction of child behavior in its own right. Importantly, our findings show differential outcomes for children within the same family, supporting a differentiated child-specific outlook. Further evidence that both marital quality and shared, as well as differential, mother–child relationships link with child behavior is provided here. Consequently, interventions with the aim of decreasing children’s behavioral problems and increasing more positive conduct can usefully include a focus on the nature of the parents’ romantic relationship, alongside parenting.

scholarly journals Postnatal depression is associated with detrimental life-long and multi-generational impacts on relationship quality

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e4305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Myers ◽  
Sarah E. Johns
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Postnatal Depression ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Mother Child Relationships ◽  
Multigenerational Effects ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
The Impact

Postnatal depression (PND) is known to be associated with a range of detrimental child and adolescent outcomes, resulting from its disruptive impact on mother-child relationship quality. However, until now little has been known about the impact of PND on the longer-term relationships between mothers and their children, and any intergenerational effects this may have. Mother-child relationship quality is of interest from an evolutionary perspective as it plays a role in the accrual of offspring embodied capital, thus affecting offspring quality and offspring’s capacity to subsequently invest in their own children. Relationships with offspring also mediate grandparent-grandchild relations; if PND negatively affects long-term mother–offspring relationship quality, it is also likely to negatively affect grandmaternal investment via reduced grandmother–grandchild relationship quality. Here, we use responses to a retrospective questionnaire study of postmenopausal women, largely from the UK and US, to assess the impact of PND occurring in generation 1 on mother–child relationship quality across the life course of the child (generation 2) with whom it was associated, and also on the relationship quality with grandchildren (generation 3) from that child. Average mother-child relationship quality was lower when the child’s birth was associated with PND. Multi-level regression modelling found that mother-child relationship quality decreased as PND symptom severity increased after controlling for individual effects and a variety of other factors known to influence relationship quality (individual mothers n = 296, mother-child dyads n = 646). Additionally, intergenerational relationships appear to be affected, with PND negatively associated with grandmother-grandchild relations (individual grandmothers n = 125, relations with grandchildren from n = 197 grandmother-parent dyads). That PND has long-term detrimental consequences for mother-child relationships, well beyond adolescence, highlights the need for investment in strategies to prevent PND and its cascade of negative multigenerational effects.

scholarly journals How Strong Is a Mother's Love? Exploring the Mediating Role of Mother-Child Relationship Quality on the Link between Child Abuse Experiences and Adult Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuya Yin ◽  
Molly M. McLay
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Mother Child Relationships ◽  
Ipv Perpetration ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
Violence Transmission

Purpose: Intimate partner violence (IPV) has detrimental effects on individuals' physical and mental health. Intergenerational violence transmission theory posits that child abuse (CA) is an important determinant of later IPV perpetration due to socially learned aggression and expectations of violence in romantic relationships. However, less research exists on family protective factors like the mother-child relationship, the strength of which may mediate this link. The present study explored the association between mother-child relationships, child abuse, and adult IPV perpetration--specifically, whether mother-child relationship quality mediated the effects on the link between child abuse and later IPV. Methods: This study analyzed data from individuals who completed Waves I and Wave IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N=3718 respondents). Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to investigate mediation dynamics between CA, mother-child relationship, and adult IPV perpetration. Results: Structural equation model fit the data well (CFI = .918, RMSEA = .051 [.045, .057]). The mediation model revealed that the direct effect of childhood abuse on IPV was .067 (p<.001), while the indirect effect of childhood abuse on IPV (i.e., the effect operating through the mother-child relationship) was .005 (p<.001). Conclusions: While CA remains a significant risk factor for adult IPV perpetration, findings suggest that high-quality mother-child relationships may have a buffering effect and aid in preventing intergenerational violence transmission. Continued efforts to research, fund, and implement interventions that build healthy family dynamics are needed to support traumatized children into adulthood and end intergenerational violence.

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