ISBN:
9780789011398
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (426 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Unbroken Homes : Single-Parent Mothers Tell Their Stories
DDC:
306.85/6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Explore the real-life triumphs and tragedies of single-parent mothers!Unbroken Homes is a "story quilt" of personal narratives constructed from in-depth, case study interviews of five single-parent mothers. The book chronicles their journeys as mothers, daughters, and women, in relationships and in solitude, displaying their stories in their own words like the squares of a multicolored quilt. Unbroken Homes breaks through the stigma associated with "broken homes" and provides a new perspective on the reorganization of American families.Unbroken Homes encourages you to rethink some damaging ste
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why Do We Need This Book?; The Rest of the Story; Labeling and Deviance; Defining Family; The Importance of Theories and Interpretive Frameworks; A Different Side of the Story; Investigating the Lived Experiences of Single Mothers; Methodology; Presentation of the Book; What Can Be Learned from Only Five Women?; Chapter 1. What Is Family? Mothering, Fathering, and Being Single; Defining Family; Male Instrumentalists and Female Expressives: Gender Roles Defined
Description / Table of Contents:
Parenting: Sainted Mothers and Disappearing FathersDivorce: A Battleground for Gender Wars; Single Women: Apart and Together; Conclusion; Squares of the Quilt: Single Mothers Through Their Own Eyes; The Story Quilt; The Interviews; The Women; Chapter 2. Judith: ""Getting My Life Back""; Parents and Parenting; Sensitivity to Stereotyping; Facing Aloneness and Finding Strength; The Question of Quality Time; Beyond the Divorce: Parenting Changes; Divorce As Liberation; Emotional Codependency with Her Son; Completing the Journey; Chapter 3. Kathleen: ""I Want to Do Everything Right""
Description / Table of Contents:
The Divorce ExperienceProviding Every Opportunity; Reflections on Divorce; Multiple Roles and Role Conflicts; Teaching Values; Learning About New Relationships: Her Significant Other; Conclusion; Chapter 4. Shawna: ""Stand Your Ground""; Power and Control: A Question of Property; From the Other Side: The Child of a ""Bad"" Marriage; Having a Baby, Not a Wedding; Parenting Tasha; The Good Aunt: Parenting a Teenage Mother's Troubled Daughter; Breaking Out and Breaking Down; Chapter 5. Lyn: ""Just Get On with It""; Three Generations of Single Moms; Lyn's Divorce: Getting On with It
Description / Table of Contents:
Child Rearing: Encouraging IndependenceMyself Alone; Coping with Depression; Old and New Myths; Retirement: No Place for Women; Conclusion; Chapter 6. Sarah: ""Reparenting the Child in Me""; The Characters; The Settings; Living in a Dysfunctional Marriage; A History of Abuse; Sarah: Reparenting Herself; Sarah's Daughters: Adolescent Storms; Family: When It Works; School and the Single Parent; The Final Act: Picking Up the Pieces; Conclusion: A Disaster and an Irish Blessing; Chapter 7. Viewing the Quilt: Patterns and Themes; Introduction; Families and Parenting; Gender Wars Revisited
Description / Table of Contents:
Women's Development: Journeys Through Self and RelationshipThe Children of Divorce: Before and After; Conclusions and Recommendations; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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