recruited from a conducted using broad used, including open Reliance on mothers’ and situational couple education questions about violence, coding and constant reports of coparenting violence. program for all divorcing custody, and comparative analysis, relationships. parents. Mothers were as well as axial coding, and Addresses factors that eligible for inclusion if factors related to their selective coding. make it more difficult they reported that their divorce and family Analysis moved from for mother’s to former husband had structure. descriptive to theoretical with their physically hurt them, or coding. abusive former threatened or attempted husbands despite the to physically hurt them, Mothers reported 1 of 3 desire for their children more than once before or patterns of marital abuse: to maintain contact with after separation. All chronic physical abuse their fathers. women in the sample with coercive control (n reported abuse that had = 12), episodic physical the potential to cause abuse with coercive injury. control (n = 3), and episodic physical abuse without coercive control (n = 4). Mothers’ custody decisions were influences by a complex combination of (e.g., child related, legal system), pragmatic concerns, and family ideology. All mothers who experienced coercive controlling violence in marriage were actively with their former husbands and reported ongoing issues with abuse and coercive control. Hardesty, Khaw, 25 divorced mothers who In-depth, semi-structured Grounded theory Reliance on self-report Differentiates between Chung, & Martin experienced at least 2 interviewers were methods of analysis were retrospective accounts. coercive controlling (2008) incidents of violence by conducted with questions used, including open Reliance on mothers’
recruited from a education program for all divorcing parents. Mothers were eligible for inclusion if they reported that their former husband had physically hurt them, or threatened or attempted to physically hurt them, more than once before or after separation. All women in the sample reported abuse that had the potential to cause injury. conducted using broad questions about violence, custody, and as well as factors related to their divorce and family structure. used, including open coding and constant comparative analysis, axial coding, and selective coding. Analysis moved from descriptive to theoretical coding. Mothers reported 1 of 3 patterns of marital abuse: chronic physical abuse with coercive control (n = 12), episodic physical abuse with coercive control (n = 3), and episodic physical abuse without coercive control (n = 4). Mothers’ custody decisions were influences by a complex combination of (e.g., child related, legal system), pragmatic concerns, and family ideology. All mothers who experienced coercive controlling violence in marriage were actively with their former husbands and reported ongoing issues with abuse and coercive control. Reliance on mothers’ reports of coparenting relationships. and situational couple violence. Addresses factors that make it more difficult for mother’s to with their abusive former husbands despite the desire for their children to maintain contact with their fathers. Hardesty, Khaw, Chung, & Martin (2008) 25 divorced mothers who experienced at least 2 incidents of violence by In-depth, semi-structured interviewers were conducted with questions Grounded theory methods of analysis were used, including open Reliance on self-report retrospective accounts. Reliance on mothers’ Differentiates between coercive controlling