title: Forgiveness, and other themes, in women whose fathers killed their mothers.
abstract: The purpose of this article is to describe the experiences of adult women who, when they were children, experienced the homicide of their mother by their father. Two qualitative interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of 31 women survivors of uxoricide to create a qualitative description of the phenomenon. A number of themes have emerged including descriptions of the daughter "seeking understanding," "forgiving the father" (or not), and descriptions of the father in terms of his being her father or in terms of his behavior and the homicide.
authors.affiliation: University of Virginia School of Nursing, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA. klc6e@virginia.edu
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Laughon
authors.forename: Richard H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Steeves
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: Andea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Knopp
authors.forename: Erika Metzler
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Sawin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012934:Social Isolation; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*