Contesting family-based violence

Sole parenting possibilities and alternatives

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12516645
AutoresGenine Hook (0000-0003-2562-0911, The School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, The University of New England, Armidale, Australia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas67-76
Fecha de publicación2017-05-24
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1322-9400 • E-ISSN: 1839-3543
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13229400.2017.1327881
OpenAlexW2620477989
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas32

This paper considers problematic recognisability and deficit constructions of sole parent families which I suggest contribute to conditions that can perpetuate family-based violence. Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s safety (ANROWS) state that one in four women in Australia have experienced at least one incident of violence by an intimate partner, equating to 2.2 million women who, since the age of 15, have experienced male intimate partner violence. A proliferation of discourses constructing the deficit ‘single mother’ tends to reinscribe the centrality and normative power of the hetero-nuclear family. When we obscure and restrict choice and alternatives to familial forms we restrict the possibilities of these alternatives becoming liveable lives. When deficit constructions of sole parenting are reinforced, people in dangerous and untenable violent family circumstances are less likely to view sole parenting as a possibility for constituting an alternative and happy family life

Centrality · Criminology · Developmental psychology · Domestic violence · Equating · Family life · Intimate partner · Normative · Nuclear family · Poison control · Political science · Power (physics · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sociology · State (computer science · Child Welfare and Adoption · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Psychology