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This paper describes a single aspect of an ongoing program of research that seeks to create an open dialog among low-income parents of young children, staff from a large urban Head Start program, and researchers on child and woman safety. Authors conducted a content analysis of three focus groups within a larger ethnographic study employing qualitative methods. Data emerging from this analysis illustrates the ingenuity with which women keep themselves and their children safe in unsafe contexts.
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Mohr, W.K., Fantuzzo, J.W. & Abdul-Kabir, S. Safeguarding Themselves and Their Children: Mothers Share Their Strategies. Journal of Family Violence 16, 75–92 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026580526895
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