Pells Kirrily, Wilson Emma, Thi Thu Hang Nguyen
a Young Lives, Oxford Department of International Development , University of Oxford , Oxford , UK.
b Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health , London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , London , UK.
Glob Public Health. 2016;11(1-2):34-47. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2015.1028958. Epub 2015 Apr 7.
Understandings of women's agency in cases of intimate partner violence (IPV) have been dominated by an individualistic focus on help-seeking behaviour. The role of children in influencing, enabling and restricting the decision-making processes of their mothers has been largely ignored. We adopt biographical analytical approaches to qualitative longitudinal data collected as part of the Young Lives study to highlight the interdependency of women's and children's agency in contexts of IPV in Vietnam. We illustrate how women's agency is both enabled and constrained by their relationships with their children, as well as by wider structural processes, and examine how gender and generation intersect. In marginalised settings where few formal services exist or strong social norms preclude women from accessing support, understanding these informal coping strategies and the processes by which these are negotiated is essential for developing more effective policy responses.
在亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）案件中，对女性能动性的理解一直以对寻求帮助行为的个人主义关注为主导。儿童在影响、促成和限制其母亲决策过程中所起的作用在很大程度上被忽视了。我们采用传记分析方法来分析作为“年轻生命”研究一部分收集的定性纵向数据，以突出越南亲密伴侣暴力背景下女性和儿童能动性的相互依存关系。我们阐述了女性的能动性如何既受到她们与子女关系的促成和限制，也受到更广泛结构过程的影响，并研究了性别和代际如何相互交织。在几乎没有正规服务或强大社会规范使妇女无法获得支持的边缘化环境中，了解这些非正式应对策略以及协商这些策略的过程对于制定更有效的政策回应至关重要。
