婆家？娘家？何處是我家？女性單親家長的家庭支持系統分析
摘要
The growth and impacts of single parent families are one of the most concerned issues in the contemporary studies. From the perspectives of the Taiwanese culture, married women are like the split water, belong to the families they are married. When the status of married women changed, how female single parents has experienced the process of becoming a single parent? How do they feel? What happened to them? In order to reach the above goals, the researcher used focus group method and in-depth interview to collect the data. The subjective interpretations of 21 female single parents are explored. Two male single parents and 27 social service providers are also interviewed to formulate the complete and true family support pictures of female-headed households. Results indicated that the family support systems are limited among interviewed female-headed households. The informants pointed that their relationships with conjugal families are distant. They are like foreigners when their marriage are put an end. Concerning to the relationships with their families of origin, female single parents perceived the nature of transition and instability. Some implications are discussed to develop a coordinated social service delivery to help these women in need.