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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Single Motherhood"”.
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Family Talk: Irish Women Across Generations Negotiate Single Motherhood
Until relatively recently, single motherhood in Ireland, could result in stigmatisation, social exclusion and institutionalisation. This thesis examines the ways in which three generations of women in Irish families talked about single motherhood. Interviews were conducted with seven …
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Transforming Motherhood: Single Parents' Liberation In The 1970s
<p>Transforming Motherhood examines the experiences of single mothers from the early 1970s until the mid-1980s. Because most accounts of single motherhood in these decades focused on single motherhood as the cause of social problems, most of the discourse about single motherhood is framed on the …
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Motherhood, Family, and Inequality in Contemporary Japan
… explores how particular models of family and motherhood are reinforced in contemporary Japan, and give rise to significant social distinctions between families and mothers. Based on documentary research and forty life history interviews with single mothers conducted in Tokyo, I examine how …
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Mothers’ living experience of relationship breakdown and divorce: a heuristic inquiry
… dynamics, focusing instead on the effects of single motherhood on children. This heuristic study, grounded in the researcher’s autobiographical experience, explores the tacit, unspoken dimensions of mothers’ experiences of relationship dissolution. Employing Moustakas’ heuristic methodology …
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Working class single mothers : performing middle class identity
Much of the literature on single motherhood has been devoted to poor or middle class single mothers. In this study I interviewed working class single mothers. Their unique position between the poor and the middle class leads to interesting observations about how women at the boundaries do and …
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Xhosa Single Mothers: Reasons for Remaining Single
… situational and cultural influences related to single motherhood among a specific population in South Africa. Through semi-structured interviews and participant observation, this thesis reveals the life stories and experiences of the women utilizing the Salem Baby Care Centre. Hopefully, this …
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Kinship and family life of the Herero
… Children are highly valued among the Herero, and motherhood is essential for womanhood. Because the age of marriage is high and for many women marriage is unattainable, women can not postpone giving birth until possible marriage and end up as single mothers. However, single motherhood among the …
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#BlackMamasMatter: The Significance of Motherhood and Mothering for Low-Income Black Single Mothers
In the present neoliberal era, low-income Black single mothers receiving public assistance must grapple with heightened state surveillance, the devaluation of their mothering, trying to raise Black children in a racist society, and navigating the neoliberal economic system. This dissertation …
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The Random Occurrence of Parallel Acts
… such as a father accepting his daughter's single motherhood in the sixties, of a daughter losing her animosity toward her mother when she realizes that we do what we must to survive, and the decision to stop life-saving treatment for a profoundly mentally challenged son touches lives every …
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Correlates and consequences of physical activity among single mothers
Single motherhood has been associated with negative health consequences such as cardiovascular disease, depression, and stress. Participation in physical activity might improve the health of single mothers, yet little is known about the correlates and consequences of this health behavior among this …
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Lone motherhood, welfare and paid work : identities and experiences
Lone motherhood has long been a source of social, economic and political concern. With increasing family diversity and change involving patterns of parental separation and single motherhood, children are now more likely to spend some time in a lone mother headed family, compared with forty years …
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The role of gender, aspirations, and family structure in Mexican education and migration
… students, I longitudinally model the role of single motherhood in the subsequent risk of dropping out, focusing on the link between migration and absent fathers. I find that upper-secondary students living with a single mother due to international migration or divorce/separation are at a …
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Single Mother, Migrant Domestic Workers: Exploring the coping experience of low-income Zimbabwean women raising their children in South Africa
… This study investigated the way that Zimbabwean single mother migrant domestic workers (MDWs) experience and cope with the burden of care. Specifically, it looks at women who have decided at some point in their migrancy experience to bring their children to raise in South Africa. The purpose of …
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Married to the state : mothering on welfare : survival strategies of single mothers in a UK public housing estate
… provides an ethnographic account of the lives of single mothers subsisting on Department of Social Security (DSS) benefits in a large public housing estate where unemployment rates are very high and traditional nuclear families are the exception rather than the rule. The aims and objectives of the …
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The challenges single parent mothers experience regarding the disclosure of their HIV status
… with HIV and AIDS makes it difficult for single mothers living with HIV and those with AIDS to disclose their status, as they often experience feelings of rejection, blame, and ambivalence together with fear of death. These reasons often lead to single mothers choosing not to share any …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
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