Children completed a with various aspects of parent-child relationship positive parenting. questionnaire in the study and a Fathers who experienced perception of parenting family-of-origin scale in the mother-only aggression were more sample. likely to be aggressive towards wives than fathers who did not. Husband-to-wife aggression was positively associated with child abuse potential in both mothers and fathers. Ford-Gilboe, 40 single-parent families In-depth, open ended Used grounded theory No distinctions Provides practical Merritt-Gray, & with a history of woman interviews were methods, starting with types of violence or implications for policy Berman (2003) abuse. Recruited using conducted. line by line coding and severity or frequency of makers and service community constant comparative violence. providers working to advertisements. analysis and then moving assist single-parent Mothers and children to creating categories families after leaving an over the age of 12 were and descriptive abusive husband/father. interviewed. theoretical coding. Member checking Provide detailed occurred by discussing description of the categories and qualitative methods. theoretical findings with participants. Documents how controlling behaviors was may shift from violence “Intrusion” identified as central to in the relationship to families’ experiences intrusion after separation. separation in the form Intrusion included of harassment. continued harassment and violence (e.g., disrupting family routines, purposely violating family expectations,
Children completed a parent-child relationship questionnaire in the study and a perception of parenting scale in the mother-only sample. with various aspects of positive parenting. Fathers who experienced family-of-origin aggression were more likely to be aggressive towards wives than fathers who did not. Husband-to-wife aggression was positively associated with child abuse potential in both mothers and fathers. Ford-Gilboe, Merritt-Gray, & Berman (2003) 40 single-parent families with a history of woman abuse. Recruited using community advertisements. Mothers and children over the age of 12 were interviewed. In-depth, open ended interviews were conducted. Used grounded theory methods, starting with line by line coding and constant comparative analysis and then moving to creating categories and descriptive theoretical coding. Member checking occurred by discussing the categories and theoretical findings with participants. “Intrusion” was identified as central to families’ experiences separation. Intrusion included continued harassment and violence (e.g., disrupting family routines, purposely violating family expectations, No distinctions types of violence or severity or frequency of violence. Provides practical implications for policy makers and service providers working to assist single-parent families after leaving an abusive husband/father. Provide detailed description of qualitative methods. Documents how controlling behaviors may shift from violence in the relationship to intrusion after separation in the form of harassment.
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