When the village gets bombed

Painting created for this dissertation by Salma Eltanamly - How parents cope in the aftermath of war and refuge Worldwide millions of parents and their children live in warzones or have fled their homes to look for safety elsewhere. How can parents raise their children when they have lost the resources they need to manage the stress of war, or when they face new stressors as refugee families in foreign places? Hend Eltanamly unraveled factors that shape parenting practices in the aftermath of war and refuge and tested the effect of a brief-focused intervention on the self-efficacy of refugee parents. Friday 15 October she will defend her PhD thesis at the University of Amsterdam. When villages get bombed survival becomes central in parents' everyday lives. Parents no longer worry if they will bring their children to school on time, but whether their children will actually come back home from school, alive. Many parents leave their lands with their children and seek refuge in foreign countries. After all, "no one puts their children on a boat unless the water is safer than the land" (Warsan Shire, British poet).