“Pay Attention to Me”: Children’s Subjective Perceptions of the Process of Leaving Home With Their Mothers to Shelters for Battered Women

Anat Vass; Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

doi:10.1177/1077801219890421

“Pay Attention to Me”: Children’s Subjective Perceptions of the Process of Leaving Home With Their Mothers to Shelters for Battered Women

Anat Vass^*
, Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

^*Corresponding author for this work

The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare

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Abstract

Extensive research has been conducted on the effects of children’s exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV). Nonetheless, there is a dearth of research on children’s subjective perception of the process of leaving their home with their mother to shelters for battered women. Based on thematic analysis of in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 32 Israeli 7- to 12-year-old children, the results revealed the following three main themes: violence against the mother in general, the way they left for the shelter, and the reasons and circumstances of leaving the home and community. The results are discussed in light of the cognitive-structural framework.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	295-319
Number of pages	25
Journal	Violence Against Women
Volume	27
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801219890421
State	Published - Mar 2021

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children exposed to domestic violence
children of battered women
intimate partner violence
shelters for battered women

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