Another participant describes her relationship with her mother as positive and having good memories with her father:
Well, yeah, we’ve always been really close. I do have some really, really good memories, probably about being like 4 or 5 years old where I was really close to my dad. You know, I remember, yeah, I remember going around town with him in his old truck and we would sing songs and stuff, but, but yeah, but for the majority of my life it’s been my mom, continues to be my mom that I’m really close to. Yeah, and we have a good relationship. We talk on the phone every day and see each other every week, you know, multiple times, so (Carol).
Participants also often described constructs relating to trust and mistrust. Participant …show more content…
This author goes on to say that the existing data combined with retrospective reports indicate that these children, without intervention, are at higher risk to become either victims or perpetrators later in their lives. Additional resiliency data point to alternative family and community support, and the child’s individual resources and temperament as factors that influence the outcomes of violence exposure (Osofsky, 2003, p. …show more content…
Childress (2013) presents domestic violence as a phenomenon with global implication for women and their families because of its negative effect on physical health and mental wellbeing. Additionally, Anda (2006) and other researchers present this exposure as one of the major adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) along with being a victim of child abuse, neglect, and being exposed to substance abuse in the home. Anda (2006) goes further to state that ACEs “are a common pathway to social, emotional, and cognitive impairments that lead to increased risk for unhealthily behaviors, risk of violence or re-victimization, disease, disability, and premature mortality” (p. 2). This is not an attempt to minimize the negative outcomes of childhood exposure to domestic violence. However, the examination of fifteen interviews with adult daughters of mothers of domestic violence present intriguing insight into positive statements on life situations, attitudes, and behaviors which could have implications for resiliency after ACE experiences, mainly domestic
Well, yeah, we’ve always been really close. I do have some really, really good memories, probably about being like 4 or 5 years old where I was really close to my dad. You know, I remember, yeah, I remember going around town with him in his old truck and we would sing songs and stuff, but, but yeah, but for the majority of my life it’s been my mom, continues to be my mom that I’m really close to. Yeah, and we have a good relationship. We talk on the phone every day and see each other every week, you know, multiple times, so (Carol).
Participants also often described constructs relating to trust and mistrust. Participant …show more content…
This author goes on to say that the existing data combined with retrospective reports indicate that these children, without intervention, are at higher risk to become either victims or perpetrators later in their lives. Additional resiliency data point to alternative family and community support, and the child’s individual resources and temperament as factors that influence the outcomes of violence exposure (Osofsky, 2003, p. …show more content…
Childress (2013) presents domestic violence as a phenomenon with global implication for women and their families because of its negative effect on physical health and mental wellbeing. Additionally, Anda (2006) and other researchers present this exposure as one of the major adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) along with being a victim of child abuse, neglect, and being exposed to substance abuse in the home. Anda (2006) goes further to state that ACEs “are a common pathway to social, emotional, and cognitive impairments that lead to increased risk for unhealthily behaviors, risk of violence or re-victimization, disease, disability, and premature mortality” (p. 2). This is not an attempt to minimize the negative outcomes of childhood exposure to domestic violence. However, the examination of fifteen interviews with adult daughters of mothers of domestic violence present intriguing insight into positive statements on life situations, attitudes, and behaviors which could have implications for resiliency after ACE experiences, mainly domestic