"You Don't Need Nobody Else Knocking you Down": Survivor-Mothers' Experiences of Surveillance in Domestic Violence Shelters
"You Don't Need Nobody Else Knocking you Down": Survivor-Mothers' Experiences of Surveillance in Domestic Violence Shelters
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DOI：
10.1007/s10896-019-00090-y
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发表时间：
2020-04-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Goodman, Lisa A.
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作者：
Fauci, Jennifer E.;Goodman, Lisa A.
对于亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）的幸存者来说，向家庭暴力（DV）庇护所寻求帮助的行为可能会产生巨大的成本。其中一项成本是我们所说的“育儿监督”：也就是说，家庭暴力倡导者可以监控、评估，有时还可以控制幸存者的育儿活动——通过他们被授权的记者角色，这些活动被赋予了权重。尽管监控长期以来一直是国家干预家庭生活的一个特征，尤其是对有色人种的低收入女性而言，但在家庭暴力庇护所系统中，这一特征在很大程度上尚未得到探索。这是一个惊人的差距：尽管大多数家庭暴力项目都致力于支持幸存者的自主权和赋权，但对养育子女的监督可能会呼应幸存者试图逃离的虐待动态。本定性描述研究旨在探讨四个庇护所的12名居民中幸存母亲的育儿监督经验。定性内容分析产生了五个集群：幸存者母亲(1)在他们的项目中经历和见证了父母的监视，即使他们也找到了支持；(2)描述了对监视的负面心理反应；(3)报告了监视对父母的影响；(4)应对和抵制监视；(5)提供最小化或减少监视的建议。尽管监视是一种结构性现象，融入了家庭暴力庇护所的政策和实践，但参与者的经历因其个人身份和历史以及与倡导者的关系而有所不同。然而，尽管存在这些差异，对母亲进行监测的成本是巨大的。对于倡导者来说，解决这一现象需要务实和关系上的转变，这种转变基于对幸存者母亲在具有挑战性的条件下养育子女的主观经验的同情。
For survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), the act of seeking help from a domestic violence (DV) shelter can incur enormous costs. One cost is what we refer to as "parenting surveillance:" that is, DV advocates can monitor, evaluate, and sometimes control survivors' parenting-activities given weight through their mandated reporter role. Although surveillance has long been a feature of state intervention into family life, particularly for low-income women of color, it is largely unexplored in the DV shelter system. This is a striking gap: Though most DV programs are committed to supporting survivors' autonomy and empowerment, the surveillance of parenting may echo abusive dynamics from which survivors are attempting to escape. This qualitative-descriptive study aimed to explore survivor-mothers' experiences of parenting surveillance among 12 residents of four shelters. Qualitative content analysis yielded five clusters: Survivor-mothers (1) experience and witness parenting surveillance in their programs even as they also find support, (2) describe negative psychological responses to surveillance, (3) report effects on parenting from surveillance, (4) cope with and resist surveillance, and (5) offer recommendations that minimize or diminish surveillance. Although surveillance is a structural phenomenon, baked into the policies and practices of DV shelters, participants' experiences of it vary based on their personal identities and histories and their relationships with advocates. Despite these variations, however, the costs of surveillance for mothers is significant. For advocates, addressing this phenomenon requires pragmatic and relational shifts grounded in empathy for survivor-mothers' subjective experience of parenting in challenging conditions.