Citation

Øverlien C. Child Fam. Soc. Work 2011; 16(1): 71-80.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1365-2206.2010.00715.x

PMID

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Abstract

Women's refuges were established in Norway in the late 1970s by and for women. From the very outset, abused women have also brought their children to the refuges. With an increasing political, practical and research focus on the situation of children exposed to violence, the Norwegian refuge movement today is expected to apply both the woman's and the child's perspective in their work. By analysing the discourse of children staying at women's refuges, this paper discusses and sheds light on situations where the two perspectives come into conflict and the implications of these conflicts for the children and for the women's refuge movement as a whole.