This paper investigates how children experience and practice parental relationships after moving to a women’s refuge. Most research has explored the moving and separation process from women’s perspectives, but this paper focus on children’s perspectives. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with children at a refuge, the analysis shows how children’s parental relationships – despite the violence – remain important under difficult family circumstances, and how children practice intimate social bonds while being embedded within complex family relationships. This brings attention to the wider contexts of children’s relationships and how these affect children’s experiences and practices of intimate social bonds.

本文研究了儿童在转到妇女庇护所后如何体验和实践父母关系。大多数研究都从妇女的角度探讨了迁移和分离的过程，但本文着重于儿童的观点。根据人种学的田野调查和在避难所与儿童的访谈，分析显示，尽管发生暴力，儿童的父母关系如何在困难的家庭情况下仍然很重要，以及儿童如何在融入复杂的家庭关系中时建立亲密的社会纽带。这引起人们对儿童关系更广泛背景的关注，以及它们如何影响儿童亲密社会纽带的经历和实践。