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https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/15880| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2020.1837514 |
| Type: | Journal Article |
| Title: | Mothers’ understandings of ‘home’ after relationship separation and divorce |
| Authors: | Campo, Monica Smyth, Bruce Natalier, Kristin Fehlberg, Belinda |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Publisher: | Routledge |
| Abstract: | This paper explores 35 mothers’ understandings of home after relationship separation, along with barriers and facilitators to creating home post-separation. No previous research has done so. We found that for mothers, like their children, home was complex and multidimensional, and rarely defined just in terms of physical space. Rather, it was a relational concept, with physical space providing the context for relationships with family, neighbourhood and community, to feel safe, and the opportunity to be oneself. More than half the mothers in the study reported experiencing domestic and family violence by their former partners and, for some, this had continued after separation. While the ongoing impacts of domestic and family violence significantly challenged some mothers’ ability to create home, separation and a level of liberation from violence could also mean that they were able to create home for the first time for themselves and their children. |
| URI: | https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/15880 |
| ISSN: | 0964-9069 |
| Appears in Collections: | Journal Articles |
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