DOI:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260512469108
Web resource:	http://jiv.sagepub.com/content/28/9/1817.abstract
Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Domestic Violence and the Place of Fear in Mother/Baby Relationships: “What Was I Afraid Of ? Of Making It Worse.”
Other Titles:	Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Authors:	Power, Charmaine Verity, Fiona Buchanan, Fiona
Year:	2013
Citation:	No 9 Vol.: 28
Notes:	It should come as no surprise that when women who have raised babies in domestic violence come together to discuss the formation of relationships with their babies they raise issues of fear. Yet in current attachment studies about the formation of relationships between women and their babies, knowledge of fear based in lived experiences is undervalued. This article draws on a qualitative study of such experiences to explore ways in which fear impacted on 16 women and their babies. From this study it is discerned that fear impacts in diverse ways on women, babies, and their relationships with each other. Women’s experiences show that fear is a complex emotion that cannot be understood outside of context, relations, and subjectivity. Furthermore, fear can be the motivation for protection, whereby actions by women are in the interests of safety of their babies. These insights look beyond attachment theory to the manifestations of and responses to fear identified by women who have raised babies while enduring domestic violence. Electronic Resource Number: 10.1177/0886260512469108
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/14353
Physical description:	Pages 1817-1838
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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