"Left him in the dust:" father exclusion from maternal harm reduction services
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Social Work, School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Weaver, Sydney Michelle
issued: 2013-07-26T09:14:47Z
issued: 2013
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This study was conducted in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, with former patients of a harm reduction maternity ward serving pregnant women who use illicit drugs in Vancouver’s downtown eastside. This district is one of Canada’s poorest urban neighbourhoods. The purpose of this study was to build theory, based on how fathers and mothers were affected by father exclusion, to inform development of more effective services for substance-using parents. The study demonstrates how father exclusion from services offered at a harm reduction hospital maternity unit affects fathers and mothers struggling with problematic drug use. A qualitative approach, constructivist grounded theory, was used. A purposeful sampling method was employed to recruit 20 parents, 10 mothers and 10 fathers, for individual interviews and a focus group. Grounded theory method highlighted how structural conditions of addictions services recursively interact with experiences of fathers and mothers, amplifying obstacles experienced by parents using illicit drugs, such as poverty, stigma, racism and homelessness. Fathers’ gender-based exclusion compounded feelings of exclusion based on race and class, and negatively affected mothers. The study findings: contest the tenets of ‘difference’ feminist theory that underpin contemporary addictions services for women; demonstrate the importance of including fathers in antenatal, natal and postnatal addictions services; and contribute to theory aimed at disrupting and destabilizing gender norms.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/44704
note: “LEFT HIM IN THE DUST:” FATHER EXCLUSION FROM MATERNAL HARM REDUCTION SERVICES by SYDNEY MICHELLE WEAVER B.G.S., Simon Fraser University, 1980 B.S.W., University of British Columbia, 2002 M.S.W., University of British Columbia, 2003 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Social Work) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) JULY 2013 © Sydney Michelle Weaver, 2013 ii Abstract This study was conducted in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, with former patients of a harm reduction maternity ward serving pregnant women who use illicit drugs in Vancouver’s downtown eastside. This district is one of Canada’s poorest urban neighbourhoods. The purpose of this study was to build theory, based on how fathers and mothers were affected by father exclusion, to inform development of more effective services for substance-­‐using parents. The study demonstrates how father exclusion from services offered at a harm reduction hospital maternity unit affects fathers and mothers struggling with problematic drug use. A qualitative approach, constructivist grounded theory, was used. A purposeful sampling method was employed to recruit 20 parents, 10 mothers and 10 fathers, for individual interviews and a focus group. Grounded theory method highlighted how structural conditions of addictions services recursively interact with experiences of fathers and mothers, amplifying obstacles experienced by parents using illicit drugs, such as poverty, stigma, racism and homelessness. Fathers’ gender-­‐based exclusion compounded feelings of exclusion based on race and class, and negatively affected mothers. The study findings: contest the tenets of ‘difference’ feminist theory that underpin contemporary addictions services for women; demonstrate the importance of including fathers in antenatal, natal and postnatal addictions services; and contribute to theory aimed at disrupting and destabilizing gender norm…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
spatial: Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
date issued: 2013-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0073994
language: eng
degree discipline: Social Work
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44704