University of Notre Dame, IN, USA.
University of Memphis, TN, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2022 May;37(9-10):NP7775-NP7802. doi: 10.1177/0886260520969231. Epub 2020 Nov 3.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is experienced by one in four women in the United States, and a wealth of quantitative research has underscored its detrimental effects on women's mental health and parenting practices. Little research, however, has considered ways in which women exposed to IPV retain and foster parenting strengths and ways in which motherhood serves as a source of resilience for these women. The objective of the current study was to conduct a thematic analysis of IPV-exposed women's parenting strengths and concerns as reported through focus groups conducted with IPV-exposed women ( = 22) and service providers ( = 31) in two urban areas in the Mid-West and Mid-South. Results of the thematic analysis indicated the emergence of three core themes: resilience and challenges of parenting in the context of IPV, leaving the violent partner, and intergenerational processes. Overall, service providers recognized far fewer strengths in parenting on all dimensions than did women, suggesting that service providers may be conceptualizing parenting in the context of IPV from a deficit model that underestimates the resilience demonstrated by these women. This has important consequences for the extent to which women may feel stigmatized or blamed when receiving resources and services critical to their families. Future research on parenting among women experiencing IPV would be enhanced by capturing the dynamic interplay between women's parenting strengths and challenges, and the ways in which these capacities are affected by resource access within and across social ecological contexts.
亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）在美国每四个女性中就有一个经历过，大量的定量研究强调了它对女性心理健康和育儿实践的有害影响。然而，很少有研究考虑到遭受 IPV 暴露的女性如何保留和培养育儿优势，以及母性如何成为这些女性韧性的源泉。本研究的目的是通过在中西部和南部两个城市地区对遭受 IPV 暴露的女性（=22）和服务提供者（=31）进行焦点小组讨论，对遭受 IPV 暴露的女性的育儿优势和关注点进行主题分析。主题分析的结果表明出现了三个核心主题：在 IPV 背景下育儿的韧性和挑战、离开暴力伴侣，以及代际过程。总的来说，服务提供者在所有维度上对育儿的优势的认识都远远少于女性，这表明服务提供者可能从一种低估这些女性表现出的韧性的缺陷模式来理解 IPV 背景下的育儿。这对女性在获得对其家庭至关重要的资源和服务时感到被污名化或被指责的程度有重要影响。对经历 IPV 的女性进行育儿研究，如果能够捕捉到女性育儿优势和挑战之间的动态相互作用，以及这些能力在内部和跨社会生态环境中获得资源的方式受到影响的方式，将会得到增强。
