Mothers of children who
suffer various problems tend to discuss their experience as a crisis in their
maternal identity, regardless of whether the children are young or adults.
However, the maternal identity of mothers who are aware that their adult
daughters are being abused has not yet been explored.
This study aims to
examine the construction of the maternal identity by Israeli women whose grown
daughters have been subjected to intimate partner violence (IPV), in the light
of cultural representations of motherhood and domestic violence (DV). Thematic
discourse analysis of in-depth interviews with 11 mothers identified discursive
strategies that they used to negotiate a troubled maternal identity following their
daughters' IPV experience. The mothers asserted a positive maternal identity by
referring to common discourses about DV and motherhood, in a bid to bolster
their "good mother" identity, to reframe motherhood, and to assign
responsibility for the abuse to the abuser, to their daughters, or to the
patriarchal social structure.
The implications of these findings for motherhood
and maternal identity theories and for professionals working in the field of DV
are discussed.
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