城市贫困单亲母亲抚育子女的资源及其流向——济南市个案研究

The Resource and its Flowing Direction of Urban Single Mother's Raising Children——Case Study in Jinan

20世纪80年代以来,单亲家庭日益增多。在这些单亲家庭中,以女性为主的单亲家庭占近90%,城市贫困单亲母亲是其中的重要组成部分。子女抚育是单亲母亲最重要的职责,在抚育子女的过程中,她们面临经济、住房、工作与照顾子女时间冲突、难以获得抚养费和抚育中的力不从心等困难。离异单亲母亲在抚育子女时更容易获得原生家庭的帮助;丧偶单亲母亲在抚育子女时更容易获得前夫方亲属的支持;正式的社会资源倾向于流向丧偶单亲母亲。

Since the 1980s, the single parent families are increasing in number. In these families, single mother families take percentage of 90% , of which poor single mother families are the main component. Raising children is their most important task, and in this process they are in conflict with income, housing, work and taking care of children, and in difficulties of lacking fostering money and energy. Divorced single mothers is apt to get help from her mother family; widowed single mother is more easily to obtain help from her ex - husband＇ s relatives; formal social resources are tending to flow to widowed single mother.