Non‐resident motherhood: managing a threatened identity

Kielty, Sandra

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2206.2007.00512.x

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“…In divorce disputes, child custody is mostly awarded to the mother (Hacker 2005). Thus, women who become the non‐resident parent are likely to be considered abnormal, and are often subject to negative social judgments, posing potential threat to women's personal and social identity (Kielty 2008).…”

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“…Women who lose custody of their children are viewed as unfit or ‘not good’ mothers, regardless of their pain of losing the children, and in most cases, losing the legal battle also. In many cases, these women are judged unfairly as maternal failures and are, therefore, blamed for not raising their own children (Clumpus 1996; Kielty 2008).…”

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“…In divorce disputes, child custody is mostly awarded to the mother (Hacker 2005). Thus, women who become the non-resident parent are likely to be considered abnormal, and are often subject to negative social judgments, posing potential threat to women's personal and social identity (Kielty 2008). Gardner (1985Gardner ( , 1992 coined PAS as a concept describing the resident parent as implementing a variety of direct and indirect techniques, designed to alienate the children from their non-resident parent.…”

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The experience of motherhood for alienated mothers

Finzi‐Dottan

Goldblatt

Cohen-Masica³

2011

Child & Family Social Work

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This qualitative study examined the alienated mothers' experience of motherhood. Data were collected by in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with 10 women whose children refused any contact with them. Findings revealed one main theme, ‘Merging vs. detachment’, consisting of four subthemes or motifs in these women's narratives: (i) marriage as an illusion of salvation from an abusive home; (ii) giving birth to a child as compensation for chaotic childhood experiences; (iii) husband exploiting and abusing their sense of failing motherhood; and (iv) the husband and mother‐in‐law expelling the mother. These findings were interpreted within the framework of Bowen's theory. The interpretation suggests that impairment in the mothers' and ex‐husbands' differentiation of the self is manifest in the shattered mother–child relations and in the mothers' loss of their children in the struggle with their mothers‐in‐law. Implications for practice are included.

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The experience of motherhood for alienated mothers

Finzi‐Dottan

Goldblatt

Cohen-Masica³

2011

Child & Family Social Work

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“…Studies on non-resident mothers are limited: most are dated (Stewart 1999) or based on small or highly selected samples (King 2007). More recently, studies on non-resident motherhood have received some attention, but mainly from a qualitative viewpoint (Kielty 2008a(Kielty , 2008b. In addition, studies on the topic have not considered the relationship between the repartnering of both parents and non-resident parent-child contact.…”

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Non-resident parent-child contact after marital dissolution and parental repartnering: Evidence from Italy

Meggiolaro¹,

Ongaro²

2015

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BACKGROUND\ud With the diffusion of marital instability, the number of children who spend some of their childhood without one of their parents has become significant, even in Italy. Therefore, given the importance of parent-child interactions for children’s wellbeing, analyzing children’s contact with the non-resident parent has become relevant.\ud OBJECTIVE\ud In this paper we consider the frequency of contact between children and their non-resident parent after separation, with a double aim: a) to analyze if and how the non-resident parent’s contact with his/her children varies according to whether the (resident or non-resident) parent has repartnered, and b) to investigate whether the relationship between repartnering and contact differs according to the gender of the non-resident parent.\ud METHODS\ud The study focuses on children aged 0-17 living with only one biological parent, using data pooled together from two cross-sectional rounds of the Italian survey, Family and Social Subjects.\ud RESULTS\ud Results show that parents’ repartnering is positively associated with lower non-resident parent-child contact only in the case of non-resident fathers; in the case of a non-resident mother, her repartnering is actually correlated with higher contact

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“…The storied struggle of mothers separated from their children through various circumstances (such as divorce, imprisonment, chronic illness) often enables a sense of determination and can lead to an increased awareness of personal agency (Kielty, 2008;Lockwood, 2017). However, this can be particularly difficult to reconcile with the constraints and complexities of life as an international PhD student, in which autonomy can be restricted.…”

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Rethinking stories of transnational mothering in the context of international study

Lockwood

Smith

Karpenko-Seccombe

2019

Women's Studies International Forum

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Women's migration has facilitated diverse understandings of both mothering and motherhood. Despite this, transnational mothering tends to be understood in narrowly defined terms, largely associated with economic necessity, with alternative motivations for women's migration and transnational mothering largely absent from existing literature. This research aims to contribute to literature about transnational mothering by drawing on research with mothers in the context of postgraduate international study to explore the different ways in which mothers reproduce, negotiate, contest and diversify narratives of 'good mothering'. We also bring greater visibility to stories of transnational mothers and illuminate the other interests and aspirations that transnational mothers evoke with regards to their migration. We argue that rethinking stories of transnational mothering allows us to hear about and to value a diversity of mothers' lives, so these mothers do not have to inhabit the margins and periphery of stories of either motherhood or international student life.

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Non‐resident motherhood: managing a threatened identity

Cited by 19 publications

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The experience of motherhood for alienated mothers

The experience of motherhood for alienated mothers

Non-resident parent-child contact after marital dissolution and parental repartnering: Evidence from Italy

Rethinking stories of transnational mothering in the context of international study

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