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Title: | Contesting family-based violence: sole parenting possibilities and alternatives | Contributor(s): | Hook, Genine (author) | Publication Date: | 2020 | Early Online Version: | 2017-05-24 | DOI: | 10.1080/13229400.2017.1327881 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/26325 | Abstract: | 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. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Journal of Family Studies, 26(1), p. 67-76 | Publisher: | Routledge | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1839-3543 1322-9400 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160801 Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 441001 Applied sociology, program evaluation and social impact assessment | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classified | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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