Navigating Services: A Scoping Review of Mothers’ Experiences with Intimate Partner Violence and Social Systems in Canada and the United States
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Intimate partner violence (IPV) has significant social, clinical, and public health consequences, particularly for mothers, who must navigate complex social service systems that may expose them to stigma, financial instability, and punitive system-based risks-including child apprehension. This scoping review explores how mothers with histories of IPV navigate social systems. Following the Joanna Briggs Institute framework and Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool quality assessment criteria, 5 databases were searched, and 13 studies met the inclusion criteria of peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles, written in English, and conducted in Canada or the United States. Analysis revealed: (a) retributive consequences of help-seeking for mothers, (b) distrust of social systems by mothers who experienced IPV, and (c) disproportionate maternal responsibilities within IPV and child welfare involvement. Findings highlight a disconnect between social system responses and the support mothers require, punitive policies that discourage mothers' help-seeking, and failure to address mothers' caregiving burdens. Addressing these issues through survivor-centered, trauma- and violence-informed care-based reforms can foster healing environments rather than perpetuate harm.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".