title: Leaving violent relationships and avoiding homelessness - providing a choice for women and their children.
abstract: The report Staying Home/Leaving Violence describes a research study that explores how women, leaving a relationship where they experience domestic violence, can remain safely in their own homes with their children, with the violent offender being removed. In this qualitative study, 29 women were interviewed about their experiences of leaving a violent relationship. Of these 29 women, nine remained in their own home. This article describes the factors that enabled these nine women to remain in their homes and comments on the policy and practice implications for health workers.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of New South Wales. j.breckenridge@unsw.edu.au
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Breckenridge
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mulroney
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002651:Child Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002755:Choice Behavior; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000208:ethnology / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006798:Housing / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D035846:Law Enforcement; D008875:Middle Aged; D009517:New South Wales; D011640:Public Policy; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012449:Safety / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014505:Urban Population; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology; D014933:Women's Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*