This study intends to understand the meaning and the essence of the experience of single mothers who divorced because of family violence. It applied the analytical phenomenological research methodology of Max Van Manen. Putting its focus on the essenc...
This study intends to understand the meaning and the essence of the experience of single mothers who divorced because of family violence. It applied the analytical phenomenological research methodology of Max Van Manen. Putting its focus on the essence of the experience, this study conducted existent examination, analytical phenomenological reflection, and analytical phenomenological writing. Based on the results of analyzing data collected, essential themes of experience emerged;
<The marriage was wrong from the beginning, which caused the divorce.>, <They became stable, escaping from the depression of bringing up kids alone>, <Double burden of bringing up their kids and taking the responsibility for living>, <Their husbands were bad fathers, but the mothers can't make up for the fathers' absence to the full.>, <They do their best to prevent their kids from being teased as fatherless kids.>, <They are worried about their kids' excessive behaviors.>, <Establishment of the identity of single mothers> The conclusion about single mother's experience of woman who divorced because of family violence is as follows:First, single mother experience is to consider others' thinking a lot so they cut down or re-adjust their social relations. Secondly, the participants experience difficulties in playing the double role of making a living and taking care of their children as mothers. Third, the participants feel psychologically free and easy in their current life, but they can't be free from social prejudice. Fourth, the participants feel their children's behaviors are different from the behaviors of children of other general families, and they get embarrassed. Fifth, single mother experience is to find their potentiality, escaping from the violence.