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- catalog abstract ""Unbroken Homes does not deal with what is "typical" in the single-parenting experience, nor does it give advice or proselytize. Rather, its purpose is to discover the meaning that single-parent mothers bring to their own lives, helping you to understand the dynamics of single-parent families from a uniquely personal perspective."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12135148.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Unbroken Homes does not deal with what is "typical" in the single-parenting experience, nor does it give advice or proselytize. Rather, its purpose is to discover the meaning that single-parent mothers bring to their own lives, helping you to understand the dynamics of single-parent families from a uniquely personal perspective."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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 -- 3. Kathleen: "I want to do everything right" : The divorce experience ; Providing every opportunity ; Reflections on divorce ; Multiple roles and role conflicts ; Teaching values ; Learning about new relationships: her significant other -- 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 -- ".
- catalog description "5. Lyn: "Just get on with it" : Three generations of single moms ; Lyn's divorce: getting on with it ; Child rearing: encouraging independence ; Myself alone ; Coping with depression ; Old and new myths ; Retirement: no place for women -- 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 ; A disaster and an Irish blessing -- 7. Viewing the quilt: patterns and themes : Families and parenting ; Gender wars revisited ; Women's development: journeys through self and relationship ; The children of divorce: before and after ; Conclusions and recommendations.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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? -- 1. What is family? Mothering, fathering, and being single : Defining family ; Male instrumentalists and female expressives: gender roles defined ; Parenting: sainted mothers and disappearing fathers ; Divorce: a battleground for gender wars ; Single women: apart and together -- Squares of the quilt: single mothers through their own eyes ; The story quilt ; The interviews ; The women -- ".
- catalog extent "xvi, 409 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Unbroken homes.".
- catalog identifier "0789011395 (hard : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0789011409 (soft : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Unbroken homes.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Haworth Press,".
- catalog relation "Unbroken homes.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "306.85/6 21".
- catalog subject "Divorced mothers United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "HQ759.45 .P37 2000".
- catalog subject "HQ759.45 .P37 2001".
- catalog subject "Single mothers United States Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Single-parent families United States Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 -- 3. Kathleen: "I want to do everything right" : The divorce experience ; Providing every opportunity ; Reflections on divorce ; Multiple roles and role conflicts ; Teaching values ; Learning about new relationships: her significant other -- 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 -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "5. Lyn: "Just get on with it" : Three generations of single moms ; Lyn's divorce: getting on with it ; Child rearing: encouraging independence ; Myself alone ; Coping with depression ; Old and new myths ; Retirement: no place for women -- 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 ; A disaster and an Irish blessing -- 7. Viewing the quilt: patterns and themes : Families and parenting ; Gender wars revisited ; Women's development: journeys through self and relationship ; The children of divorce: before and after ; Conclusions and recommendations.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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? -- 1. What is family? Mothering, fathering, and being single : Defining family ; Male instrumentalists and female expressives: gender roles defined ; Parenting: sainted mothers and disappearing fathers ; Divorce: a battleground for gender wars ; Single women: apart and together -- Squares of the quilt: single mothers through their own eyes ; The story quilt ; The interviews ; The women -- ".
- catalog title "Unbroken homes : single-parent mothers tell their stories / Wendy A. Paterson.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".