Narrating the good life – children in shelters for abused women talk about the future

Carolina Överlien

33 citations0/0 files storedQualitative Social Work

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Intimate Partner and Family Violence Child Welfare and Adoption Child Abuse and Trauma

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study children living with their mothers in shelters for abused women and their narratives about the future. Voices of five children and adolescents (11–17 years old) and their hopes and concerns about the future are analyzed using narrative analysis. The analysis shows that the children narrate ‘the good life’, which can be understood as narrating ‘ordinary life’, for example, everyday life with school, a safe home and friends. The article proposes that ‘the good life narrative’ is part of a master narrative at the shelter. Although the children do not narrate past events, their stories are positioned against their lives both prior to and during their shelter stay. These narratives can be understood as narratives of solutions and, as such, provide important knowledge about children living in shelters for abused women and their hopes for the future.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 33 citations exist upstream.

References

1956The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.2023The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life 1981The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays 1991Acts of meaning 2007Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences 1991The Narrative Construction of Reality 1990Positioning: The Discursive Production of Selves 1986Research Interviewing: Context and Narrative

Cited by

2016Children’s Corporeal Agency and Use of Space in Situations of Domestic Violence 2022Children’s Rights and Their Life Situation in Domestic Violence Shelters—An Integrative Review 2020Educational Opportunities and Obstacles for Teenagers Living in Domestic Violence Refuges 2015Children’s Corporeal Agency and Use of Space in Situations of Domestic Violence 2020“Pay Attention to Me”: Children’s Subjective Perceptions of the Process of Leaving Home With Their Mothers to Shelters for Battered Women 2021Displaying family at a women’s refuge

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.