Mothers’ Post-separation Experiences of Male Partner Abuse: An Exploratory Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110575
Author(s):  
Charisse Hay ◽  
Madalena Grobbelaar ◽  
Marika Guggisberg
Keyword(s):  
Partner Violence ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Male Partner ◽  
Abusive Relationships ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
Qualitative Exploration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) involves physical and sexual violence and coercive controlling behaviours to maximise power inequality in abusive relationships. Many women make the decision to exit abusive relationships due to the detrimental impact of IPV on their children. In a qualitative exploration, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 women recruited by purposive and snowballing sampling techniques. Two overarching themes of single mothers’ unique experiences of co-parenting with IPV were revealed through interpretative phenomenological analysis. The first theme was Continuous Victimisation, which indicated that post-separation victimisation was an extension of existing IPV whereby fathers used intimidation, threatening behaviours such as stalking and other monitoring tactics and the deliberate undermining of the mother–child relationship. The second theme identified was Systemic Challenges, indicating how court officials applied a ‘pro-contact’ approach and either minimised or denied mothers’ allegations of IPV and the impact on them and the children. The analysis found a persistent bias against mothers . Implications of the study are discussed before the article concludes that attitudinal change regarding IPV is required by decision makers in court processes with a recognition that abusive men may be unwilling to engage in cooperative parenting that focuses on the children’s developmental, social, emotional, psychological and physical needs.

scholarly journals Intimate Partner Violence and Resilience: The Experience of Women in Mother-Child Assisted Living Centers

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 8318
Author(s):  
Chiara Rollero ◽  
Federica Speranza
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Trust Relationships ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

Research has largely documented the damaging consequences of intimate partner violence. However, the literature presents an important gap in the identification of factors that may strengthen resilience in the victims, especially in the case of mothers and pregnant women. The present study aimed at investigating the experience of abused mothers engaged in an educative path in a Mother–Child Assisted Living Center. A qualitative descriptive methodology was used. Face-to-face in-depth interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of eight women. Four main themes emerged from the interviews: (1) improvement in the mother–child relationship; (2) a process of personal change during the educative path; (3) the rebuilding of trust relationships; and (4) attitudes and hopes toward the future. Taken together, these findings highlight the process of resilience, conceived from a socioecological perspective as the ability to use resources rooted in interconnected systems. The implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals What Mothers of Young Children Care about: A Grounded Theory Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Gowri Parameswaran
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Personal Wellbeing ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Mainstream psychology of parenting styles minimizes the wisdom of mothers in being able to navigate parenting within a complex ever-changing system. This empirical study involves in-depth interviews conducted in two different contexts. This paper explores the major concerns mothers have about their child-rearing experiences, their children’s welfare, and the impact that these concerns have had on their personal wellbeing. The paper will outline some ways in which mothers attempt to address the barriers to a fulfilling mother-child relationship.

scholarly journals An exploratory study of the ways in which mothers keep their infants occupied

Curationis ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Botha ◽  
G. Cleaver
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Development ◽  
First Year ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Infant Research ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

The mother child relationship can help or hinder the social, emotional and intellectual development of the infant. Research has shown that the interaction between mother and child can affect the child’s cognitive development. Research has shown that mothers from the lower socio-economic groups do not stimulate their babies optimally and that this may affect the children negatively. In this study 86 underprivileged mothers from two different cultural backgrounds were asked to describe the ways in which they kept their infants occupied during the first year of their infants’ lives. The differences between the two groups are discussed and recommendations are made.

scholarly journals ‘This is Killing me Inside’: The Impact of Having a Parent with Young-Onset Dementia

Dementia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1089-1107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen J Aslett ◽  
Jaci C Huws ◽  
Robert T Woods ◽  
Joanne Kelly-Rhind
Keyword(s):  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Parent Support ◽  
Young Onset ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Affected Parent ◽  
Young Onset Dementia ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study explored the experience of young adults having a parent with young-onset dementia. In-depth interviews were undertaken with five participants aged between 23 and 36 years of age and these were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Participants were found to experience a number of stresses in relation to their parent’s illness, many of which were linked to loss and guilt. Five main themes were identified related to relationship changes, shifts in roles and responsibilities, support for the non-affected parent, support for self and the impact of living with their own potential risk of dementia. These findings are discussed in relation to the existing literature and suggest that individuals with a parent with young-onset dementia have needs which service providers should consider in the wider context of young-onset dementia care.

scholarly journals The Impact of Radical Love on Human Memory

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 1026-1032
Author(s):  
Sandra Racionero-Plaza ◽  
Leire Ugalde ◽  
Ana Vidu ◽  
Patricia Melgar ◽  
Nagore Navarrete
Keyword(s):  
Partner Violence ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Human Memory ◽  
Violent Relationships ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

The social impact of reading the book Radical Love cannot be grasped by the dominant discourse on the evaluation of social impact. A deep understanding of autobiographical memories must go beyond the quantitative analysis of details and episodes to qualitatively examine the meanings constructed through recollection. Thus, we explored young women’s memories of intimate partner violence through memory narratives and the way these memories were reconstructed when the women read Radical Love. In addition, we examined the personal meanings given to this reading experience through in-depth interviews and a focus group. The results showed that Radical Love made the participants more critical about their memories and made these memories unappealing. This reading led some women to leave violent relationships and transform their prospective thinking. In a time when impact is measured mainly by research articles, this qualitative analysis of the memory transformation promoted by reading Radical Love demonstrates that books can also have a social impact.

Challenges of researching gendered violence

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Suzanne Franzway ◽  
Nicole Moulding ◽  
Sarah Wendt ◽  
Carole Zufferey ◽  
Donna Chung
Keyword(s):  
Partner Violence ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
National Study ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Empirical Foundation

This chapter is focused on the challenges of researching gendered violence. Here, the chapter presents the empirical foundation and design of a large-scale national study conducted across Australia; which included a major survey, in-depth interviews, and constructed life histories. This chapter also considers some of the challenges faced when conducting and participating in gendered violence research in the context of the politics of ignorance and sexual politics. Given the risks that can flow from participating in and conducting research into gendered violence, it was particularly vital that the study was tightly conceptualised and methodologically sound, so that the benefits of participation by contributing to the development of new knowledge clearly outweighed any risks. The research study outlined here aimed to reveal the breadth and interconnected nature of the impact of intimate partner violence on women's citizenship as part of challenging wilful ignorance about violence and its relationship to gender inequality. As such, this research was an inherently political project that involved balancing a number of key considerations.

The Lived Experience of Adults Bereaved by Suicide

Crisis ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Begley ◽  
Ethel Quayle
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Suicide Bereavement ◽  
Causal Nature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract. In recent years, a plethora of research studies have attempted to delineate the grief experiences associated with suicide from those of other sudden traumatic deaths. The emerging consensus suggests that bereavement through suicide is more similar than different to other bereavements, but is characterized by the reactions of shame, stigma, and self-blame. The causal nature of these reactions has yet to be fully understood. This study reports on the lived experiences of eight adults bereaved by suicides, which were obtained through in-depth interviews. Data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Four main themes dominated the relatives' grief experiences. First, the early months were checkered by attempts to “control the impact of the death.” The second theme was the overwhelming need to “make sense of the death” and this was coupled with a third theme, a marked “social uneasiness.” Finally, participants had an eventual realization of a sense of “purposefulness” in their lives following the suicide death. Overall, the findings suggest that suicide bereavement is molded and shaped by the bereaved individual's life experiences with the deceased and their perceptions following social interactions after the event. The findings from this study suggest that “meaning making” may be an important variable in furthering our understanding of the nuances in suicide bereavement.

Relational Sequelae of Fetal Death During the First Pregnancy: A Qualitative Study on the Subjective Perceptions of the Relationship Between Mothers and Their Adult Subsequent Firstborn Children

2020 ◽  
pp. 003022282095089
Author(s):  
Caterina Saccardo ◽  
Vincenzo Calvo
Keyword(s):  
Fetal Death ◽  
Perinatal Loss ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Prolonged Grief ◽  
Subjective Perceptions ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Mother Child Relationship ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Perinatal loss may deeply affect the attachment relationships of mothers and their next-born children. The aim was to explore the subjective perceptions of mothers, who had fetal death during the first pregnancy, and their adult subsequent firstborn children regarding the impact of the perinatal loss on the mother-child relationship and children’s self-perception. Fifteen mothers who experienced a fetal death during the first pregnancy and their adult subsequent firstborn children were interviewed. A Grounded Theory approach was used. Five main themes were identified: fetal death as a real loss producing prolonged grief; the importance of the communication about the dead sibling; creating and maintaining a relationship with the lost sibling; the mother-subsequent child relationship: between detachment and overprotection; significant effects of fetal death on adult subsequent children’s self-perception. Results highlighted a deep impact of fetal death on the subsequent mother-child relationship, as perceived by both mothers and adult children.

scholarly journals How Do Memories of Having Been Parented Relate to the Parenting-Experience of Fathers in Treatment for Intimate Partner Violence? A Phenomenological Analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Mohaupt ◽  
Fanny Duckert ◽  
Ingunn Rangul Askeland
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Childhood Experiences ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Few studies have examined how men who use intimate partner violence (IPV) experience being a parent. This study describes how Norwegian men in treatment for IPV reflect upon the impact of their childhood experiences on their fathering. We interviewed 11 men in treatment for IPV regarding their fathering experience, and their memories of having been parented. We performed a descriptive phenomenological analysis of the data. We identified two superordinate themes that described the participants’ fathering experience: being a benign versus being a detrimental force in the child’s life and having the intention of not repeating and the actual repetition of harmful parenting. The participants described being conflicted regarding being potentially damaging for their child’s development. They generally described a lack of stable positive relationships, both early in life and in the present. Partner-violent men’s meaning making of their fathering seems to be influenced by their early-life experiences with their parents in several problematic ways. Fathers who use IPV may both accept and reject that they have been harmed by the parenting they received as children. Similarly, they may both acknowledge and discard that their use of violence harms their children. We suggest that therapy should explore these themes and their consequences for the father - child relationship.

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