Safeguarding themselves and their children: Mothers share their strategies

This paper describes a single aspect of an ongoing program of research that seeks to create an open dialog among low-income parents of young children, staff from a large urban Head Start program, and researchers on child and woman safety. Authors conducted a content analysis of three focus groups wi thin a larger ethnographic study employing qualitative methods. Data emergi ng from this analysis illustrates the ingenuity with which women keep thems elves and their children safe in unsafe contexts.