Reporting bad results: The ethical responsibility of presenting abused women's parenting practices in a negative light

  1. Eli Buchbinder1,*,
  2. Zvi Eisikovits2

Article first published online: 11 OCT 2004

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2004.00336.x

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Child & Family Social Work

Child & Family Social Work

Volume 9, Issue 4, pages 359–367, November 2004

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Buchbinder, E. and Eisikovits, Z. (2004), Reporting bad results: The ethical responsibility of presenting abused women's parenting practices in a negative light. Child & Family Social Work, 9: 359–367. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2004.00336.x

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  1. 1

    Lecturer

  2. 2

    Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work and Minerva Center for Youth Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

*Eli Buchbinder, School of Social Work and Minerva Center for Youth Studies, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel E-mail: ebuchbin@research.haifa.ac.il

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 11 OCT 2004
  2. Article first published online: 11 OCT 2004
  3. Accepted for publication: May 2004

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Keywords:

  • abused women;
  • child protection;
  • domestic violence

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to present and analyse the ethical dilemmas involved in presenting research findings that describe abused women's parenting practices in a negative light. The study was based on data collected by in-depth interviews for the purpose of examining the turning point among 20 Israeli abused women who refused to live with violence and took active steps to stop it while staying with the perpetrator. Overall the analysis indicated successful survival stories but the women's parenting practices became questionable. This raised dilemmas as to how to present such findings and what are the ethical implications related to interventions with abused women.

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