| Summary: | 碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 社會工作系碩士班 === 100 === According to the survey of Taiwan Happiness Education Society (2009), the contraceptive knowledge among adolescents was fail in Taiwan. Almost 10 per cent of them indicated that un-married pregnant might be able to get married with the loved one. The proportion of un-married pregnant or unmarried mothers is getting higher nowadays. However, because most of adolescents are not ready for being mothers, once they are pregnant and it is still a stigma for unmarried mothers in this society, they are struggling for the life course of raising kids.
The purposes of this research are stated as follows: 1. To understand the feeling about the contents of and needs for parenting among unmarried adolescent mothers.2. To explore the coping experiences and dilemmas of unmarried adolescent mothers. 3. To explore the feeling with social network and support to unmarried adolescent mothers, once they decide to raise their own child. In the research, the findings were illustrated as follows: 1. In terms of their perspectives of parenting, through education and allowing children emotional expression, it helped children to develop maturely. In addition, through daily living accompanying and interaction with children, it helped their parent-child relationships. 2. The most of the way to present parenting was the parents supplementary model. 3. Most of the personal feelings of parenting course were about their children. 4. The ways of coping experiences on parenting were day-care and nursery. The dilemmas of parenting were the impacts of environmental changes on children physical and psychological adaptation, schooling support, children’s nutrition, the stigma from main-stream society and eligibilities to apply social welfare resources. Finally, the informal sector gave information supports, emotional supports and instrumental supports whereas the formal sector gave information supports and instrumental supports only. In the final section, suggestions are proposed to the government practioners and researchers as well.
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