Citation

Henze-Pedersen S. Childhood 2021; 28(2): 231-244.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0907568220984835

PMID

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Abstract

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.

Language: en

Keywords

Children; intimate partner violence; intimate social bonds; parental relationships; women’s refuge