Disrupted relationships:Adult daughters and father absence: 2005
LEAH EAST DEBRA JACKSON LOUISE O’BRIEN
Doctoral Candidate Professorial Fellow
Penrith South NSW, Australia
CLICK HERE FOR RESEARCH: This small scale research is an example of how women are affected when fathers, for whatever reason, are not present as they grow up and the lasting effects through to adulthood.
Many Australian children live in families that experience trauma because of the breakdown of the parental relationship.This is known to place children and young people at risk of negative sequelae and life adversity.
This study focussed on the lived experience and so a phenomenological approach was selected.
This paper explores the perceptions and experiences of a group of adult daughters about their relationships with their absent fathers from the time of the separation (which occurred in their childhoods/adolescence) to the present time.
The women in this study expressed the desire to have a close loving relationship with their (missing) fathers.
