“No Matter What I loved Him Through It” A Qualitative Study of Child to Parent Aggression in Adoptive Families
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores the resilience of adoptive parents after they have experienced repeated events of Child to Parent Aggression (CPA) with an adoptee.Using social constructionism and the theories of attachment and ecological systems as a basis for my work, I conducted semi-structured interviews with nine participants based in Ontario.I used reflexive thematic analysis to analyze the data from the interviews and generated four themes, How it Starts, Events and Episodes, Impacts, and Resilience to reflect the stories the participants told.They are stories of adoptive parents who remain committed to their relationships with their children, the impacts of CPA, and the struggle to find professionals who can help.The findings of this study point towards a better understanding of the complexity of early childhood events that can lead to CPA, respecting the rights of the children who struggle with CPA, and improved outcomes for adoptive families managing CPA.Using semi-structured interviews, nine participants were interviewed.Using the framework of Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA), the interview transcripts were coded, and themes were generated, reviewed, and defined (Braun & Clarke, 2021).Four themes were identified, How it Starts, Events and Episodes, Impacts, and Resilience.Participants in this study clearly indicated that they sought compassion, understanding, and support from those who worked with their families and for others to understand that the aggression their children exhibited towards them was reactive behaviour based on a history of trauma and loss.This thesis outlines important language considerations, my reflexivity through this process, a review of relevant literature, the theoretical framework guiding this study, the methodology used, the study findings, and a discussion of these findings which add richness and depth to an understanding of adoptive parents' experiences of CPA.The findings of this study support emerging research in the field of CPA, and their implications for adoptive families, policy makers, researchers, and professionals working in the field are discussed.Cottrell (2004) identified and discussed the prevalence of violence, aggression and dominating behaviours of adolescents towards to their parents, referring to it as Child to Parent Abuse.Further, Simmons et al., (2018) identified that the word abuse was a consciously selected term as the authors agreed that neither aggression nor violence demonstrated the breadth of the actions being discussed.They chose to use "child-to-parent abuse to capture the full range of physical, emotional and psychological aggression that may be enacted by a child toward their parent."(p.32) With this Definition of CPA Canadian research by
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".