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Parenting Capacity And Meaning Making Among Survivors Of Intimate Partner Violence, Johanna Engler Barry
Parenting Capacity And Meaning Making Among Survivors Of Intimate Partner Violence, Johanna Engler Barry
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This qualitative dissertation used a feminist methodology to explore parenting capacity and meaning making among a purposive sample of 16 female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). The two research questions that guided this work centered on how women's exposure to IPV during both childhood and adulthood impacted parenting capacity. All participants for this dissertation experienced IPV during childhood as well as adulthood, and had at least one school-aged child. Participants completed semi-structured in-person interviews during which they were asked a series of questions about their experiences with IPV during childhood and adulthood as well as questions about their parenting …