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Adult Daughters of Battered Women

Resistance and Resilience in the Face of Danger

Fran S. Danis

University of Missouri–Columbia

This article reports on a qualitative study that examined first-person accounts of resilient women who, as children, were exposed to the battering of their mothers. The key finding was the roots of their resilient capacities that were forged in resistance to their childhood adversity and its consequences, particularly the violence perpetrated by their fathers against their mothers. The women used a variety of protective strategies to withstand and oppose their sense of powerlessness owing to the batterers' oppression of them and their mothers. Implications for social work practice include using resistance to oppression as part of a resilience-oriented helping paradigm in working with children who have been exposed to domestic violence.

Key Words: children exposed to domestic violence • domestic violence • oppression • resilience • resistance

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